The Sacrificial Mechanism in Pop Culture -- Mimetic Theory and Literary Study

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Date Posted: 21:05:50 03/16/08 Sun
Author: Erin Risch
Subject: The Sacrificial Mechanism in Pop Culture

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I am usually not a fan of this comic strip, but it caught my eye today as a intuited example of why the sacrificial victim must be a marginalized member of society. It seems that, in the earlier frames, hierarchies persist in enough strength to prevent true mimetic conflicts; the child isn't going to rise up against his mother or anything. However, the violence does continue, and the cartoonist emphasizes that it finds its source in previous violence and that the action of all four members of the family is essentially the same. The only way to put an end to the violence (temporarily, I assume), is to turn upon a doll that can't directly continue the cycle.

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