This paper aims to analyse heteronormativity and queer characters in the game World ofWarcraft and its accompanying literary works Exploring Azeroth: The Eastern Kingdoms,Shadows Rising, and ”Terror by Torchlight” by comparing how they differ between the gameand the books. To accomplish this, the paper focuses on the characters Flynn Fairwind andMathias Shaw and their budding relationship. Through the analysis, I establish the world ofWorld of Warcraft as heteronormative, and continue by discussing what roles queer charactersplay and how they differ from heteronormative characters. The paper concludes that queercharacters play smaller roles focused on tension-relieving comedic moments that tend to getwritten out of the story as their storylines conclude. It also finds that the relationship betweenFlynn and Mathias is treated as a character in its own right and that the two characters gettheir own voices amplified through the relationship. / <p>Alternativt författarnamn: Alex Linhem</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-204420 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Linhem, Valdemar |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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