Charles And The Green Slime Analysis

Kendall Walton sparks a dilemma that the emotions a reader or view ‘experiences’ in literature are merely quasi-emotions, due to his claim that the individual is merely participating in an act of make-belief. The expression exerted in his concept is through ‘Charles and the green slime’, or the emotional sensation felt towards a certain character in fiction. These emotional occurrences are not real, yet the sensation felt are merely the individual reacting appropriately to the author’s intended desires. Whereas Catherine Wilson rejects Walton’s claim and says otherwise, asserting that the emotions we feel from literature or movies are genuine. I will be arguing against Walton’s perspective, that the emotions generate because of literature or …show more content…
The situational report is the viewer’s acute reaction to whatever information is being processed at that given moment. The expression depicted at the moment is the same they would project in that situation. Wilson expands on the situational report through particular reaction to visual acts of such as suicide, or pornography; the two examples draw peculiar responses from the individual, regardless of whether the situation is authentic or not, the reaction of the viewer is real. The situational report is meant to reflect the human social modes of communication, given literature’s intention to draw an psychological position from the viewer. This is often done through the emotions or psychology of the author’s character, in comparison to the vagueness of a real living person. The reason why emotional stances are made to characters is because the reader is given the opportunity to connecting with the character on a personal basis. Wilson makes this claim because humans are alive and complex, whereas fiction is focused on the psychology or attitude of particular character’s. An example Wilson raises is our ability to feel gratitude in the story of Anne Karine for not being in her situation of life, or the sorrow felt in her suicide in losing that connection with the character. Nevertheless, Wilson holds we relish in our emotions because of our ability as social creature to express them. Which argues against Walton’s question in why Charles doesn’t leave the theatre, or call the cops during his occurrence in being frightened. Charles desires to relish in his emotional appetite for fear, and does so through the green slim as a mean to satisfy that