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A Critical Look at Religious\nGender Roles in William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist. \t…\t25\nThe Respectable Girl becomes the Final Girl in Halloween\t…\t34\nCreating a Monster: A Look at Toxic Masculinity\nin Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon\t…\t42\nThe Marriage Game:\nThe Representation of Marital Politics in Gerald’s Game. \t…\t53\nThe Final Girl Finally Make Sense:\nYou’re Next, the Game Changer\n… \t61\nNo Ruined Woman in It Follows\t…\t71\nConclusion\t…\t78\nBibliography\t…\t82\nPreface\n“Why do \u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Men\" \\o \"Men\" \u0014men\u0015 \u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Feel\" \\o \"Feel\" \u0014feel\u0015 threatened by \u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Women\" \\o \"Women\" \u0014women\u0015?\" I asked a male friend of mine. . . So \t\tthis male friend of mine, who does by the way exist, conveniently entered into the \tfollowing dialogue. \"I mean,\" I said, \"men are bigger, most of the time, they can run \tfaster, strangle better, and they have on the average a lot more \u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Money\" \\o \"Money\" \u0014money\u0015 \tand \u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Power\" \\o \"Power\" \u0014power\u0015.\" \"They're afraid women will \u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laugh\" \\o \"Laugh\" \u0014laugh\u0015 at them,\" he said. \"Undercut their \tworld \tview.\" Then I asked some women students in a quickie \u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Poetry\" \\o \"Poetry\" \u0014poetry\u0015 seminar I was giving,\n“Why do women feel threatened by men?\" \"They're \u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Afraid\" \\o \"Afraid\" \u0014afraid\u0015 of being \u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Killed\" \\o \"Killed\" \u0014killed\u0015,\" they said.\n—Margaret Atwood, Second Words: Selected Critical Prose\nThe history of the horror genre is extensive.  It comes by way of novels, movies, and plays of all sizes and shapes, appealing to all manner of humanity’s worse nightmares. Before these mediums were cautionary tales, superstitions, and folklore spanning a wide variety of decades and cultures.1  Stories shared among families not only influenced what we now define as the nuclear family, but generations of clans, tribes, villages, and new settlements. They are important in their telling nature, as scary books and movies—even those on the market today—bear a striking resemblance to real life occurrences.  What horror fiction has done is create a place for humans with limited knowledge of the universe to safely explore unexplainable themes like death, fear, prejudice, and survival against all odds. What is perceived as the biggest threat to civilization, however, will depend on the time period in question, making horror throughout written history an interesting and worthwhile field to study people, societal institutions, and expressions of sex and gender.\nEven the most fantastical of fiction works can be broken down to reveal everyday struggles.  Good versus evil, will against will, the struggle that we see presented to us so creatively is another way of demonstrating a person or entity vying for power in the same way that we all inevitably do.  We fight to do the right thing for ourselves and those around us.  We struggle to control the urges that we know are inappropriate or detrimental.  We try all of these things, but not everyone is successful.  As an example of this, we can make a brief study of the infamous novel Carrie, by Stephen King.  The book is centered on the titular character’s struggle for control over all aspects of her own life.  We can find some stark similarities between Carrie’s struggle and the happenings of modern day schools.  There is still a tradition that girls, no matter how young, are judged at face value.  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