A comment to my previous post, Christ-Figure in Movies/Books—Grace or Redemption?, by the ever-thoughtful and provokative Modern Matriarch, got me thinking again. Said our Matriarch: “I would argue that the ‘christ-figure’ iconography is not always intended by the writer, but is the result of western reader response. As Joseph Campbell pointed out, the archetypes exist [...]
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A Different Hero’s Journey (As only Farscape can deliver)
October 4th, 2007 · 5 Comments
Tags: Christ figure · Christian mysticism · Dante · Farscape · Gnosticism · Modern Matriarch · TV · aeons · anti-hero · archetypes · hero · hero’s journey · movies · science fiction · syzygies · writing
Christ-Figure in Movies/Books: Grace or Redemption?
October 2nd, 2007 · 11 Comments
In one of my previous posts (Fertility–Infertility & the Environment) I got into a rather lively discussion with a fellow blogger, Erik Hare, about the tendency in Western Culture mythos (in literature and in movies, particularly) to portray the main character in fiction as Christ figure and the ramifications of this choice. Erik lamented the [...]
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