Hero’s interpretation in three different characters
Quijote enters the parameters of a classic hero, but finally what makes him disregard is the failure and the time he is in, but popular culture has adopted it as an antihero certainly has some antihero behavior that is inThe one that is going to rely, but not before mentioning the words of Luís Mateo Díaz, who has given me this vision of a rather tragic hero. “In Don Quixote, not for the first time, but in a radical way, the possibility or attempt from failure. There is the germ of the hero of failure ". I have decided to rely on this to show what has been called Antihero today and try to see how Quijote fits this vision.
Starting from the base that Quijote is an antihero because of the fact that it is governed by its own moral compass, making decisions based on it for what he believes is "justice". This compass bases it on the books of cavalries that are already outdated at the time and have a large touch of fantasy in them.
An antihero is not only governed by this, but this is one of the characteristics. Since this type of character can be defined by characteristics such as antisocial or the occasional social handicap. Many times they have a tragic past that leads them to revenge or justice. They are also characters that to fulfill what they want to do, get to use extreme methods such as torture and kill, for what they believe is justice could be defined as a gray Jedi.
A gray Jedi within the world of Star Wars is a character who can use the force (telekinetic power) or without being affiliated with the Jedi order or take measures or act without the orders of this. Throughout the original trilogy and that of the year 200 we see a character from being a luminous Jedi such as Luke, a gray Jedi not following the orders and finally passing to the dark side and becoming Darth Vader.
This gray area is what interests me in which a hero is not a classic hero or a villain. Such characters like Sherlock Holmes, Madame Bovary, Greatk ..
I want to see what these characters are characterized and compared to Alonso Quijano, see that they have in common and as this character has been called an antiheroe.
Sherlock Holmes
I want to start with him since he is a well -known character especially for his peculiar form of being. I want to see if there is something apart from this that can be considered an antihero and finally a comparison. I have chosen it not for being classified as an antihero as such but for its behavior and the lifestyle that it leads, it seems like a good character to analyze.
In the modern series, a high functioning sociopath is declared, an explanation that in the books are not given from the perspective of John, we are narrated by his peculiarities, maniah, obsessions, vices … but without ever saying that he is a sociopath basically because the termAt that time it was unknown. But I want to focus on the literary character since it differs quite from the television that we have seen to life by Benedict Cumberbatch for the BBC.
It would be interesting to part of the character’s psychological aspect of his addictions as to cocaine, this can be clearly seen in the book scandal in Bohemia “Holmes, whose misanthropy moved him away from any form of sociability, he continued in our dependencies of Baker Street, buriedAmong his old books, and oscillating, week after week, between cocaine and ambition, between the drowsiness of drugthat leaves it, although he knows that physical consequences do not have to be good.
Finally, I want to highlight his professional aspect, about all the fact that he only works in what interests him, something that motivates him to seeExamine the degree of amortization after death "
We can see that, although Sherlock Holmes does not have a tragic past that sometimes antiheroes have it as an essential requirement in the elaboration of the character, it can be seen as someone who is between good and evil already does he only do whatThat you feel like it, it challenges him, fascinates … this is what he could define in large part as an antihero as well as his personality, peculiar that tends to move away people.
The character of Quijote is a character with a little social behavior especially at the beginning of the novel when he does not leave the house and is only reading “it is, of knowing that this above -mentioned Hidalgo, the times that was idle – that were the mostof the year-, he was read book of cavalries, with such fondness and taste, that he forgot almost every exercise of hunt and even the administration of his hacienda… ”But then he leaves and relates to the world always from his perspective and hismadness, and a little used vocabulary already in his time trying to keep alive an ideal that was already dead.
It differs from the Sherlock Holmes by howThis is not the case, you will not have the slightest interest in doing anything.
We see that the motivations of both characters to act have no relationship with a tragic past, an element that has been shared in some of the best known antiheroes to date. But you can also highlight certain attitudes that are perceived in both characters.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary is a character created by Gustave Flaubert in the novel Madame Bovary, in this novel a strong woman who is trapped in a society that does not understand her is presented and does not let her be free, but beyond that II want to focus on the aspects that make this woman an anti heroine.
As a young man, this woman was dedicated to reading romantic novels, and wantedLittle farm of her parents, a doctor, who is in favor of her beauty, a man who wants her madly, but will not be able to give her what she wants. Finally, she is tied to an unhappy marriage. Find comfort in the arms of their lovers who, at first, remind all of those novels to read. Even to appear to have more class, buy things that are not within your reach, clothing, accessories everything to agree with the image you have in your mind.
Until when they are invited to a dance of high society a place for her in sleep, about what she has read so many times in the stories. He convinces her husband to go, for her it is a dream come true that she does not want to wake up, she does not want the time to leave that place. And when they leave there.
She does not see the world through a prism of madness like Quijote changing the facts that pass her, but reality breaks all her dreams and schemes. His dreams, wanting to live that great romantic adventure that he expects so much is what makes him go crazy to see that he does not get it, that he will never get what he wants and finally chooses to end his life.
I have chosen this character because she also tries to do what Alonso Quijano living life in her way to be free but unlike the Quixote she cannot be locked in her small world without an escape door that she thinks would be aGreat romance with some man who will take her away, these thoughts come from the novels he read when he was young which is a parallel with the character of Don Quixote that his motivation is the novels but in his case those of cavalries.
Although it may seem that there is not much more connection beyond what is shown is a sign that Quijote has guidelines to be an antihero. Since I consider that these characters resemble more than she seems to buy clothes outside her reach to be able to give the image of a woman she has in her mind and he uses and recomposes an old armor to give life to her image as a gentleman couldsay that their follies take them on parallel roads.
GURNISSON GURREK
Goterk Gurnisson is a character that belongs to the fantastic world of Warhammer, this world comes from a role -playing game with the same name, but its universe is complemented by computer games and novels. We can find the Gournisson Gurnisson’s character in the adventures of Getrek and Félix the main author of the novels is William King.
We met Gotrek a dwarf that broke the rules of his community committed a crime and his punishment is to die committing a heroic act, and he goes in search of his death.
With this character we find ours. His sullen behavior towards others, being very little sociable beyond Félix his human partner and sometimes with him he is also treated in a derogatory way and with some dwarf companions. It also spends long hours giving beer no matter how much, just like the fights in the taverns that do not care who started them always ended up in the middle.
With this we can see that it is not the traditional hero archetype and that it resembles an antihero. Also when you have to face an enemy you don’t think twice if you have to kill you. Although his goal is to seek redemption does not behave in any way as a person worthy of being a model.
We can see with parallels that the way in which his adventure partner treats in some cases resembles Don Quijote with Sancho Panza. GOTREK goes in search of its redemption and embarks on all possible feats to achieve it, although these are often ineffective since he manages to leave alive. Instead, we can see how the character of Quijote embarks on his heroic actions to get a gentleman, although his deeds sometimes have unexpected results.
conclusion
Seeing comparisons with the previously named characters, I think that Don Quixote’s character can be called an antihero, even if the distinction to call a character antihero a character also depends a lot on the prism with which this is seen I have focused on some aspectsThe social, their sense of justice, the vices, the reasons why they make their exploits. And check if they had a tragic past, but the latter has not helped me much since none of the characters had a past of these characteristics.
Therefore, I conclude that from my point of view Don Quixote is an antihero. Since its sense of justice is governed by a code that is no longer in force and people take it in many cases as a madman or a joker. He can be considered a character with madness since he perceives the world in a different way from others and this we have also seen in Madame Bovary’s character as we have seen above.
Don Quijote cannot be highlighted more vice than his eagerness for reading not like other characters but this eagerness to read is what leads to wanting to be a walking gentleman so to some extent this reading vice could have triggered his exploitsThat in the case of Don Quijote they are clearly for selfish reasons, just being a walking knight and not for helping others, he only helps to recognize, just as we have seen it with the character of Greatk Gurnisson who only embarkedIn the different works to achieve a heroic death and recover the honor.
Finally, it should bea villain or him or the other characters we have seen.
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