Throughout Twin Peaks there was an over occurring theme of adultery. I will explain why I think David Lynch decided to have the towns people committing adultery. I believe that the adultery theme is a way to dilute the audience’s negative feelings toward Laura. David Lynch wants the audience to sympathize with Laura Palmer. If it wasn’t for the disloyal relationships throughout Twin Peaks the audience would see Laura as a whore.
Throughout the series some of the characters who committed adultery were seen as good, law abiding, citizens. Big Ed was one of the “Book House Boys,” and helped with solving the murder. He cheated on his wife with Norma, who was also married.
David Lynch uses adultery to help eliminate boundaries. When watching Twin Peaks, viewers perception of good and evil are skewered. Angela Hague related philosopher, Robert Carse ideas about “Infinite Games“ to Twin Peaks. Carse describes infinite game as a game in which boundaries are constantly being broken. Infinite games tend to try to prevent an ending.
Hague stated in her article “Infinite Games: The Denaturalization of Detection in Twin Peaks” that “the crimes had to expand outward in order to prevent any real solution.” Basically, Hague is saying that the crimes had to spread out away from Laura’s murder so that when the murder was solved you were still left in the dark about other Twin Peak issues.
Travis R.
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A huge theme across the TV. series twin peaks is adultery. I do agree with you in that by watching Twin Peaks the viewer’s perceptions of good and evil are distorted. When we did the activity in class where we labeled people as good or evil most of the characters that committed adultery were considered good, but in reality we would look down upon such an act. I believe that we considered these characters good because their committing of adultery was not as bad as what the other characters did like for example Big Ed’s committing adultery is no where near as bad as Leland murdering Laura. I do not agree with the idea that David Lynch incorporated the theme of adultery as a way to dilute our negative feelings towards Laura. Even though most of the characters did cheat on their partners we sill believed that Laura was a whore. Laura had relations with almost every guy in the series.I beleive that Lynch incorporated this theme because it is prevalent in every day life.
Yasmine K.
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