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DEATH AS A SPECTACLE IN FROM SLEEP UNBOUND AND PERFUME
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In From Sleep Unbound and Perfume, crowds congregate where there is death; they are fascinated with it. These crowds can be taken as microcosms of their societies. How does their treatment of death as a spectacle define the voyeuristic nature of their societies and their inability to understand death.
Society's tendency to dramatize death in From Sleep Unbound and Perfume could also potentially be explained by the essentially voyeuristic nature of humanity itself in both novels. Society is eager to witness death. One of the most apparent instances of this enthusiasm is at Grenouille's execution. Before the event, there is "feverish joy" among the populace, and "[the] women ironed their holiday dresses, the men duste
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