Introduction Since its prehistoric inception around the campfire, humankind has utilized storytelling to express and rationalize their visceral hopes and fears. ‘Rationalize’ could be variably glossed in elementary terms such as ‘tame’ and ‘explain away’ as well as in more complex ones as identified by Friedman: “domesticate […] socialize […] validate” (1982: 65). The most overarching expression that is conventionally herded under “hopes” in literature is love. Of fears, it is death.
