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Blurred Borders Between Good and Evil in Today's “Lesser Evil World”: The Witcher as Book, Game, and Netflix Series

Blurred Borders Between Good and Evil in Today's “Lesser Evil World”: The Witcher as Book, Game, and Netflix Series
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Author(s): Tülin Sepetci (Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University, Turkey)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 17
Source title: International Perspectives on Rethinking Evil in Film and Television
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Dilan Tüysüz (Adnan Menderes University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4778-6.ch005

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Abstract

The series of The Witcher discussed in this study stems from book series written by Andrzej Sapkowski. It started as a set of short stories in the 1980s. As short stories became very popular, full-length books were published in 1993. The most heard of The Witcher series was the digital game adaptations that was released since 2007 and lastly as TV series on Netflix in 2019. The story of The Witcher series is about a witcher named Geralt of Rivia. Geralt on the journey of evil hunting is narrated to the audience in a fantastic way. Although Geralt is an anti-hero fighting evil in the series, he himself stands on a very fine line between good and evil. This situation is noticeable not only in the main character of the series, but also in other prominent characters and reflects “the lesser evil” phenomenon throughout the series. From this point of view, The Witcher series, which conveys how the boundary between good and evil, can be transitive and relative and has been discussed through the concept of lesser evil.

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