Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.
The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.
Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.
Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.
I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope.
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.