![]() ![]() Surprisingly, the message in the intros of both the male and female barbarian characters is the same (Diablo III (3) Female Barbarian FMV Intro HD, Diablo III Cutscene – Act 1 Male Barbarian Intro). However, the voices chosen by the game developers indicates a precedent for what is considered to be feminine within the realms of Sanctuary. Most images are dark and bold, aggressive in nature with satanic themes or undertones (Saint-Max, Jacques). The fan art accompanying the Diablo 3 webpage however is full of images with movement, weapons, and an air of ferocity. The image is not dynamic, the clouds drift slowly and there is no breeze to shift the leaves in the trees. It looks soft, and sleepy, although not just because of wear and tear and old age. Here is a picture of an engraving accompanying one of the poems: A woman in a wealthy household would have the time and education to decipher the poems in the book and admire the craft of the object. The smooth silk cover and small, yet elaborate, details worked into the scrap book’s construction clearly convey an air of wealth, refinement, and luxury. ![]() Affluent society of Landon’s time aspired to imitate the royal family and Landon’s literary annual, complete with a delicately sewn binding, intricately designed border, and fancy gilded pages, does just that. Landon’s work (top) targets an educated, upper class Victorian woman. Diablo 3 presents a different aesthetic than Landon’s Fisher’s Drawing Room Scrap Book, and in turn appeals to a different target audience. In the collaborative paper Aesthetics and Status Symbols of the Victorian Era, Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s literary annual is analyzed and interpreted as an artifact representing the female role in upper class society as well as the Victorian aesthetic (Fitzgerald, Jackson, Lind, Reutter). By comparison, Diablo 3, an action role-playing computer game, engages its users in a fantasy world where they acquire skills and various objects while rising through the levels and performing tasks and quests (Game Guide). ![]()
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