SOCIAL INDIFFERENCE AND ITS ARTISTIC INTERPRETATION IN THE PROSE OF STEPHEN KING
Keywords:
Stephen King, social indifference, bystander, social invisibility, American horror fiction, focalization, Carrie.Abstract
Stephen King is usually read as a writer of the supernatural, yet a large part of the fear his fiction produces comes from ordinary people who see harm and choose not to act. This article examines how social indifference is constructed as an artistic problem in two of King's central novels, Carrie (1974) and It (1986). The study combines close reading with narratological analysis of focalization and narrative structure, and it interprets the findings through Axel Honneth's account of social invisibility, the bystander model of Latané and Darley, and Bauman and Donskis's concept of moral blindness.
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