Liz Is Not An Everyman By Ted Bundy

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Would you let your love kill you if you wanted it? Liz was a single mother in Seattle in 1969, at the same time as the Ted Bundy murders. She was freshly out of a relationship and was living alone with her daughter Molly. When she falls in love with what she believes to be a wonderful young man, but is actually who in reality is known to be Ted Bundy. From the perspective of Liz, Ted is a hero; he saves her from the struggle of being a single mom, even though he's a villain hiding in the hero's costume. Liz is just a single mother trying to make a life for her child when a kind, caring man comes into her life. She’s not an Everyman though; she’s more of the damsel in distress and struggling since she just got out of a big breakup. So she fits …show more content…

The way he talks to the cop has an underlying eerie tone to it, as if the audience knows he's in the wrong. But as he tries to talk his way out of the ticket, he ends up getting arrested. He's a wanted man in many states, which hasn't ruined the protagonist’s life but will in time once he is caught. He goes out of his way to hurt these women, even though he doesn't want to hurt Liz, because she holds a special place for him and she cares for him when others don't. In this complex storyline, story archetypes can be hard-pressed. Yet this story does fit into a couple of archetypes. A fall from grace is one of the best. The fall from grace is the defilement or loss of innocents. The fall from grace is our villain, or Bundy, losing everything he once had. He had a nice life with his fiance; he was in college to become a lawyer. His life was going very well. Then he was caught for all his crimes and wanted in many states, and Liz and her family pulled away from him. She stopped coming to the phone, and he never saw her child again. He finds out she has a new boyfriend who is blocking him from