Rutter, Devin

dc.contributor.advisor	Nowka, Scott	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Rutter, Devin
dc.creator	Rutter, Devin	en_US
dc.date	2021-11-24T14:05:37.000	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2021-11-29T11:29:44Z
dc.date.available	2021-11-29T11:29:44Z
dc.date.issued	2017-04-01	en_US
dc.date.submitted	2017-09-20T12:36:06-07:00	en_US
dc.identifier	honors_theses/150	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13013/626	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Since the publication of the first installment in 1997, JK Rowling's Harry Potter series has endured in popular culture as nothing less than a phenomenon. Thanks in part to its charming cast of complex characters, heroic adventures, and entertaining litany of magical spells, the series has attained a sort of immortality. Beyond entertainment, however, Rowling's novels also contain a spectrum of compelling cultural issues that everyone eventually grapples with as their rose-tinted view of the world is compromised. Chief among these issues are the concepts of prejudice and racism, which are embodied in the series through the dispute over blood purity, specifically between those with entirely magical ancestry and those with mixed or non-magical ancestry. Racial purity has been a cornerstone of numerous historical regimes and conflicts and as such, many comparisons can be drawn from the Pureblood-Muggleborn struggle; however, given the lack of emphasis on physical appearance, as well as a number of additional parallels among characters and events, one historical conflict stands out from the rest: Nazi Germany's anti-Semitism during the World War II era. Much of the existing criticism of the novels notes these parallels, but this paper seeks to deepen the examination of the overall theme of racial purity and its relations to WWII, primarily by engaging the mythology of the series and drawing comparisons between fiction and history. The paper also seeks to examine how these parallels help further understanding and tolerance on the part of young readers as they navigate modern society at large.	en_US
dc.format	flash_audio
dc.title	"Bad Blood Will Out": Racial Purity In Harry Potter And Parallels To World War II	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.legacy.pubstatus	published	en_US
dc.description.department	English	en_US
dc.date.display	April 2017	en_US
dc.type.degree	Bachelor of Arts (BA)	en_US
dc.legacy.pubtitle	Honors Theses	en_US
dc.legacy.identifier	https://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1150&context=honors_theses&unstamped=1	en_US
dc.legacy.identifieritem	https://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/honors_theses/150	en_US
dc.legacy.identifierfile	https://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/context/honors_theses/article/1150/type/native/viewcontent	en_US
dc.subject.keyword	Harry Potter	en_US
dc.subject.keyword	racial purity	en_US
dc.subject.keyword	racism	en_US
dc.subject.keyword	World War II	en_US