Death In Blue Velvet

The film Blue Velvet and the novel White Noise revolve around capturing the different accounts of American lifestyle that is outside the scope of perceived reality. Blue Velvet is a tale of concealed evils and perversion under a traditional American town. It is an exploration of things between the serene American residential and the dark deception that lies underneath, conscious and subconscious, and good and evil. The novel White Noise portrays a version of an American family that tries to cope with the daily conflicts of life while at the same time dealing with the issues of love, death, and sometimes happiness in a tentative world. Both works have different renders of reality and are so quick to illustrate it that it serves a sense of familiarity …show more content…
In the novel White Noise, the theme of death’s impact over the character mindset, lifestyle, as well as media is used all over the novel. The characters who are most sensitive about death are Jack and Babette. They are so devoured by their fear of death in such a way that their thoughts are always disrupted by the question: “Who will die first?” (DeLillo 198). They both say that they hope to die first so that they do not have to live without the other. Both Jack and Babette see their children as a way to evade death. The idea of giving birth is such that by having children, they cannot die. Through entrenching death systematically in the novel’s structure, DeLillo implies that maybe death is the most famous white noise of all floating in the background and extending up against the characters' view of death at every turn. In the film Blue Velvet, Lynch tries to show that people are very conscious of the presence of death, sexual weirdness, and violence. The setting in which ear was found shows that people are always dwelling in a double world and death can appear in any situation. There is no secure place. There is no liberation from the deep torments and obscurities of