So far, I've listened to the demos of the Raggedy Ann musical, and save for several eye-rolling moments, it wasn't as traumatizing as I was expecting. Mainly because it was just the songs and didn't have as much dialogue from the show itself. But then we get to the Broadway soundtrack, which is basically a live recording of one of the five
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Now I'm wondering whether I'm guilty of Compassion Fatigue in the book I'm writing. Does this trope apply when your novel has a robot protagonist and is inspired by Justine?
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I think it depends on the work in question. Is your work trying to make a point (see: Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Ringing Bell) or are the characters suffering only for cheap drama? I'm not the best judge of tragedies, but I think one can tell when a work is genuine and when one is just trying to make a short-cut to pathos.
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My novel is an attempt at bitter social commentary. The first-person protagonist is a robot whose owner forces it/him into prostitution. I wanted to use this perspective to remark upon power imbalancesthere's no straightforward allegory going on, but depending on the situation, Ariel (the robot) can analogue to a woman, a gay man, or a transgender person. No matter what, he/it's always a sex object. The problem is that some people reject narratives framed from the perspectives of sexually abused characters, either because they feel that the topic is too disturbing or because they think it makes the character too sympathetic for criticism. What do you think?
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