I think of Thomas Covenant. He the tortured leper that Stephen Donaldson wrote who is so convinced that the place where he has been healed only a dream that he rapes the healer for no other reason than to prove that it is only a dream. He can't trust his healing, nor can he believe in his role of bringing healing to the world. What kind of hero is that?
Yet in one chapter, probably one of the most beautiful I've ever read in literature (though that is influenced by the time that I read it and the distance I've come since then without re-reading it), I was brought to tears and purified from all the horrors of my life.
I like to think that there is a point where the archetype is almost denying himself in order to progress to the next level of his own existence. In an instance I change from hating him/her to loving him/her.
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Date: 2006-06-11 05:25 am (UTC)Yet in one chapter, probably one of the most beautiful I've ever read in literature (though that is influenced by the time that I read it and the distance I've come since then without re-reading it), I was brought to tears and purified from all the horrors of my life.
I like to think that there is a point where the archetype is almost denying himself in order to progress to the next level of his own existence. In an instance I change from hating him/her to loving him/her.