Political Allegory Of The American Horror Story: Cult

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American Horror Story: Cult takes place in Brookfield Heights, Michigan. This small cities’ diversity consists from white supremacists and feminist cults. The story begins with the protagonist, Ally (Sarah Paulson) who is distraught at the 2016 election results. With the results, her phobias reemerged, such as: clowns, blood and small holes/bumps making her the ideal target to be terrorized by the local neighborhoods cult. The antagonist, Kai (Evan Peters), (who happens to be the leader of the cult) primary conflict is everyone preventing him from obtaining political power. Unlike Ally after the election he became inspired to run for city council and will stop (kill) anyone in his way. Therefore American Horror Story educates and entertains its viewers making it the perfect political allegory.
American Horror Story is widely popular for it’s twisted humor and horrifying murder scenes. Compared to other shows created by Ryan Murphy, such as Glee. This show and more specifically this season focuses on the
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From Murder House to Roanoke, none of the previous seasons tend to focus on real life issues. Although they portray actual and people and in some cases actual events there wasn’t a beneficial aspect to the season. For instance, in Roanoke, the protagonists, a couple, who suffered with unusual visitors arriving at their home. Although no one wants to have images of nurses or mystery men wearing pig masks in a place they call their home, there’s no further meaning other than it did occur to some family. Another season that had relatic element but no significance is ‘Freak Show’. In this season, it was based on circus performed by ‘the freak show’ that included a miniature lady, a bearded lady, and last but not least, Jimmy Darling (Evan Peters). He was also known as ‘Lobster Boy’ for his conjoined fingers. Nonetheless he was an actual human being but it wasn’t relevant to any current news while the show was

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