tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824896765631412903.post6605838994537455644..comments2023-09-05T12:51:25.656-05:00Comments on edittorrent: Anti-heroEdittorrenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14295505709568570553noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824896765631412903.post-63234864089243329932014-01-13T10:58:29.659-06:002014-01-13T10:58:29.659-06:00Hi, Wes! this came out of our discussion.
Housebo...Hi, Wes! this came out of our discussion.<br /><br />Houseboat, yes, I think the plot implications are really interesting because it actually subverts our expectation that the central character is "good" and will have "good effects."<br /><br />Characters, being people, are more interesting than that. :)<br />AliciaEdittorrenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14295505709568570553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824896765631412903.post-8819830311179338972014-01-03T02:42:04.570-06:002014-01-03T02:42:04.570-06:00/houseboat here/
I think of 'anti-hero' a.../houseboat here/<br /><br />I think of 'anti-hero' as more of a kind of genre/skeleton/protocol kind of thing than about the actual moral make-up of the character. Like, what to expect while reading this story, what the payoffs will be, etc. In a comedy the payoffs will be a series of funny incidents. In a horror story they will be a series of horrifying incidents. In a heroic action story they will be a series of challenges in which the character does something heroic, something admirable.<br /><br />In an anti-hero story there will be a lot of places where the genre tropes (of detective story, or s&s story, etc) are set up -- but each payoff has the main character doing something that disappoints the reader's usual, positive expectations. This is a pattern, the reader comes to expect it.<br /><br />What the character actually does can be noir, or wimpy (Rincewind) -- or creatively evil beyond anyone's expectations (Flashman).<br /><br />Chechov et all have some characters who do very evil things for very evil reasons -- but we don't call those 'anti-hero stories'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824896765631412903.post-43181979663303469692014-01-02T22:10:38.530-06:002014-01-02T22:10:38.530-06:00I logged on to check the archives, and surprise, a...I logged on to check the archives, and surprise, a new post. Wonderful.<br /><br />Wes<br /><br />PS: Hope I can get Blogger to work for me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com