Scars for All
Feb. 17th, 2011 04:39 pmArtemis has one at this point in the story, of course when she gets it she makes the remark that she wants to keep it for the sheer fact that having it makes her feel closer to Kamen.
"If you kill him, this will be all I have. Just like the mark you gave him."
Throughout the story up to this point, Kamen’s been the only one with a really distinguishing mark, the scar that Van Dean gives him as a child is the biggest giveaway that he is the archetype of the classical tragic hero. Noble birth, a disfiguration (his scar), character flaw (he definitely has hubris, but jealousy and arrogance are also big ones), and tragic demise (Samm hates Part 3 for a reason).
The issue is this, Kamen is not the true hero of the story, and so by Artemis having this scar and keeping it throughout the entire Part 1 and into Part 2, she’s slowly becoming the archetype of the classical hero as well. There’s also the idea that she could have an ulterior motive to keeping the scar; Artemis is shown several times feeling almost guilty over Kamen’s scar and she could perhaps be keeping her own scar to provoke a similar guilt from Van Dean?
At this point my characters are in so deep that their actions are no longer determined by their personalities alone, but the circumstances and events that put them in their current predicament. As much as I would like to think that Nancy pulls Artemis out of her insanity in Part 2, I’m really thinking that Nancy is just as nuts as Artemis, they just happen to be the right kind of nuts for each other?
All things considered, Artemis needs Nancy psychologically to become her own Prince. Somehow this story got a lot more complicated than it was originally. It makes me want to pull out my big silver book for some simple reading.
"If you kill him, this will be all I have. Just like the mark you gave him."
Throughout the story up to this point, Kamen’s been the only one with a really distinguishing mark, the scar that Van Dean gives him as a child is the biggest giveaway that he is the archetype of the classical tragic hero. Noble birth, a disfiguration (his scar), character flaw (he definitely has hubris, but jealousy and arrogance are also big ones), and tragic demise (Samm hates Part 3 for a reason).
The issue is this, Kamen is not the true hero of the story, and so by Artemis having this scar and keeping it throughout the entire Part 1 and into Part 2, she’s slowly becoming the archetype of the classical hero as well. There’s also the idea that she could have an ulterior motive to keeping the scar; Artemis is shown several times feeling almost guilty over Kamen’s scar and she could perhaps be keeping her own scar to provoke a similar guilt from Van Dean?
At this point my characters are in so deep that their actions are no longer determined by their personalities alone, but the circumstances and events that put them in their current predicament. As much as I would like to think that Nancy pulls Artemis out of her insanity in Part 2, I’m really thinking that Nancy is just as nuts as Artemis, they just happen to be the right kind of nuts for each other?
All things considered, Artemis needs Nancy psychologically to become her own Prince. Somehow this story got a lot more complicated than it was originally. It makes me want to pull out my big silver book for some simple reading.