JP Schiller: Lit of Horror, Fantasy, and Sci-Fi

Midterm Total:    61 points Zoom Classes Attended: 6 out of 7 classes  (6 points) Official Readings:  ( 41 points total)  ( Links directly to the blog post are embedded as well) * = JP's Absolute Favorites * Frankenstein by Mary Shelly (6 points) Interview with a Vampire   (6 points)  A Wild Sheep Chase (6 points) * Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (6 points) * Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (5 points) * The Hobbit (6 points) The Night Circus (6 points) Extra Credit Readings/Viewings:   (14 points total) Frankenstein 1931 Film   (1 point) Gothic: A Lecture   (1 point) * The Haunting of Hill House   (5 points) Nosferatu   1922 Film   (1 point) * Uzumaki Vol. 1 & 2   (6 points) 

  The Night Circus (6 Points) The prompt for this week's novel will be my focus, as I feel I spoke much of my opinions and general thoughts during the zoom class. So, what values are being expressed within this work? Morgenstern is not as clear cut about how her magical world works when compared to the works of J.K. Rowling, and I believe it is entirely for the better. But it doesn't make my job to deciphering what kind of values Morgenstern wants to impress upon her audience. There are no magical houses or forces that show the black and white sides of good and evil, but rather Morgenstern's circus contains both colors as well as the shades of grey in between. Only upon writing this now did I realize that the colors of the circus could also be a representation of Morgenstern's intent to depict a world that is no so simple as to be good versus evil. In fact, this story doesn't really seem to hinge on a true moral dilemma other than the fact that there is an ambiguous...