Troubled Abuser: Difference between revisions
Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.2
(Removed redirects and fixed my punctuation mistake) |
(Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.2) |
||
Line 64:
** Jack Torrance, who suffered horrific physical abuse at the hands of his father and watched him brutalize his mother and siblings, abuses and attempts to murder his wife and his son in ''[[The Shining]]''.
* In the novel ''[[Rifters Trilogy|Starfish]]'', one of the characters is a pedophile named Gerry. At some points the narration follows his [[Switching POV|point-of-view]], and it's revealed that he himself was molested as a child.
* Edward Cullen in ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' was orphaned by the Spanish flu as a teenager and [[The Atoner|is trying to make up for]] [[My God, What Have I Done?|a period of time in which he killed humans and drank their blood]]. Also, from how his family describes his behavior just before he met Bella, he seems to have met the criteria for clinical depression. Despite being Bella's love interest, that hasn't stopped the multitude of pieces published on the Internet [http://pamgutz.livejournal.com/6499.html on] [http://outoftheashes.xanga.com/719688148/domestic-abuse-in-twilight/ why] [http://vampirely.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/extra-credit-the-twilight-saga-and-domestic-abuse/ he] [https://web.archive.org/web/20101124034307/http://impishidea.com/criticism/538/twilight-abridged-and-annotated-chapter-10 is] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120326052519/http://twimedia.blogspot.com/2010/04/watching-you-sleep-control-and-abuse-in.html a] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130708134529/http://www.squidoo.com/cullenabuse domestic abuser]. For one thing, he sabotaged Bella's truck when she was about to go out to see her friend Jacob. Controlling where a partner can or can't go or who they can or can't have contact with, as well as damaging their personal property, is abusive behavior and is noted as such in resources on dealing with abuse.
* Erik, the eponymous phantom of ''[[Phantom of the Opera]]'', kidnaps Christine and [[Scarpia Ultimatum|threatens to blow up the operahouse, where the man she loves is, if she doesn't agree to marry him]]. He is revealed to have been reviled for his deformity even when he was a child to the point where his mother neither kissed him or permitted him to ''give'' her any.
* In ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'', Warren, one of the [[Scary Black Man]] attendants who are downright abusive toward the patients of the mental hospital they work in, is said to have [[Harmful to Minors|seen his mother being raped by a white man as a child]].
| |||