ipl-logo

A Comparison Of Stephen King And Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

199 Words1 Pages
Imperialism, white supremacy, and ghost stories have captivated the human mind for generations. It’s believed by many that there is actually a causal relationship between past dominations and the spiritual lingering characteristic of the souls of the lost. Famous writers, such as Stephen King and Rudyard Kipling, as well as the movie director Stanley Kubrick all highlighted the long-standing concept that the souls of the deceased still remain on the locations of their previous homes that they occupied before they were slaughtered by domineeringly ethnocentric groups. In Stephen King’s The Shining, and in Kubrick’s film version of the novel, the white domination over the Native Americans in the West was a central theme, and was symbolically
Open Document