Freddy+Krueger

Freddy Krueger

Freddy Krueger’s story begins when he murders several children with razor blades attached to the fingers of his glove; he was known to the neighborhood as the Springwood Slasher. When he is caught and tried the judge lets him go on a technicality, enraging the parents. Desperate to make their community safe, the parents burn Krueger alive in the boiler room where he worked. Long after his murder Freddy returns to the families that killed him, looking for revenge. He torments the children of his murderers in their dreams. The one that gives him the most trouble is Nancy Thompson, whom is the daughter of the policeman that arrested Krueger. Nancy and her friends have terrifying dreams about a burned man with the Springwood Slasher’s glove. One of her friends dies in her sleep and they soon realize that if Freddy Krueger catches them in a dream, they will die. This quote demonstrates how psychotic Freddy Krueger is about killing children. The fear he strikes into them gives him the power he has to invade their dreams and kill them.
 * [|Nancy Thompson] ** : “He's strong; he's never been this strong.”
 * [|Freddy Krueger]**: “Yes... The souls of the children give me strength.”

Freddy's claw of razors demonstrates his obsession with killing. His stance and the position of his hands show his desire to murder which to a sane human being is a foreign desire and so very frightening. Red is often assosiated with anger, the red stripes on his sweater are symbolic of his anger and need for revenge against his killers. The black stripes on his shirt are symbolic of darkness. Freddy Krueger stays within people's dreams, hiding in the dark where he has a great advantage. Freddy's skin is frightening not just because it is scary too look at, but because someone who has had that much trauma to their skin would likely be dead or in enough pain to feel inclined to murder people. [|Freddy's Coming For You]