Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

* Sometimes I see links to this trope when most people would agree with the anvil being dropped. In which case... why does it need to be dropped? People clearly already get it.

** Because sometimes just "agreeing" with something isn't enough; it's about reminding people ''why'' they agree with these anvils. It's easy to forget the "why" part. For example, most people would probably agree that, say, the Nazis were bad, and they'd probably be able to give a solid answer why. But it probably wouldn't be a very emotive answer, because for most people the [[Second World War]] and the Nazis are by now something remote and distant and hard to connect with. Write a novel wherein the characters these people are able to relate to are suffering directly at the hands of the Nazis, however, and you can bring it closer to home exactly ''why'' we view the Nazis as being evil, more than you necessarily could just by reading a more abstract history on the subject.

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