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Beatrice the Storyteller - Narrative Empathy
Beatrice was able to turn the divided souls of the family into a fictional story that has broad and uniform concepts, therefore encouraging narrative empathy.
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Beatrice was able to turn the divided souls of the family into a fictional story that has broad and uniform concepts, therefore encouraging narrative empathy.
#07threads #Beatrice07
The two elements involved in the phenomenon of narrative empathy are readers as recipients of stories (i.e. potential empathisers) and characters as the result of textual linguistic choices (i.e. potential targets of empathy).
Contextual appraisal, or the knowledge about and assessment of the context in which the target’s experiences occur, is a form of top-down cognitive appraisal that can regulate empathy, therefore reach a full understanding of the other person’s situation.
In particular, how the person's actions and mental states are situated in that context, and it requires the observer to ‘think and feel how it is to be someone else in the rich complexity of that other person’s experience, from their perspective, in the situation.
Moral evaluation, as part of contextual appraisal, is also emphasized in the empathy literature as an important control mechanism. Some Moral positions adopted towards others can render them as ‘undeserving of attention or perceived as morally repugnant’.
and so the possibility of automatic empathy might be closed down. Moral evaluation can work as a mechanism in a full sense when readers make ‘conscious efforts to selectively understand or distance [themselves] emotionally’ from character, therefore reaching true understanding.
![and so the possibility of automatic empathy might be closed down. Moral evaluation can work as a mechanism in a full sense when readers make ‘conscious efforts to selectively understand or distance [themselves] emotionally’ from character, therefore reaching true understanding.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyG-eJXXIAAdBN2.jpg "and so the possibility of automatic empathy might be closed down. Moral evaluation can work as a mechanism in a full sense when readers make ‘conscious efforts to selectively understand or distance [themselves] emotionally’ from character, therefore reaching true understanding.")
Beatrice is a normal person who decided to be a fictional character. She turned into a storyteller because she thought we would be able to understand her and her family through fictional interpretations and techniques, that's' how much she has been craving for love.
Her only hope was to become a witch, so she could live in an empathic reality in the minds of the others through her writing. She was hoping for people to see the real her, behind all the truths and lies and dreams, conceptualized and personalized into ushiromiya lion.
Only through an analysis of fiction Yasu can be understood, this is the method she chose. Human Beings are easily misunderstood by one another, but it's easier to understand someone through contextual appraisal, and gain full empathy for their distant lives.
But because Yasu is in knowledge of only her own past and life context, she couldn’t provide a full context to elicit empathic response, therefore she tried to make another version of their lives, an incident that can be marked as a true beginning and an end of a life.
Tohya took that to a next level, by reshaping Yasu’s life into an internalized evolving story that composed all of the family feelings, where we are able to see and connect everyone's souls, and from there gain insightful context on the rest of the characters in the story.
This is why Beatrice's portrayed as someone who literally has the characters “Inside” her guts, through breaking apart her illusion, her stomach turns empty and full of death. Only by keeping her illusion alive, the true forms of the family can be kept alive inside our hearts.
If we also take umineko as a big logic error, the only way to solve it is by understanding the logic behind the story, or beatrice herself, hence is why beatrice is the only one able to save battler in times of distress, symbolized as herself in dawn or her cane in alliance
