but that they think they can actually escape from even having to control themselves
Eh. wasn't very clear was it. Comes of typing as I think!
What I'm trying (not very successfully) to articulate is something about how both of these characters try for some sort of detachment from the world, it doesn't work of course, but when you compare them (and again, this stuff only shows up in comparison and is NOT a major theme in either work independently) they both are queerly passive - picked by fate to be mortal combatants, they don't train for the fight. And so they loose.....
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Date: 2006-07-21 02:39 pm (UTC)Eh. wasn't very clear was it. Comes of typing as I think!
What I'm trying (not very successfully) to articulate is something about how both of these characters try for some sort of detachment from the world, it doesn't work of course, but when you compare them (and again, this stuff only shows up in comparison and is NOT a major theme in either work independently) they both are queerly passive - picked by fate to be mortal combatants, they don't train for the fight. And so they loose.....
I have no idea if I'm making any sense here.