Am currently pondering whether or not Locke is a vengeful person.
I think he tries hard not to be, and succeeds better, perhaps, than most of us would. I think that at the very least, he wanted to mean what he said to Ben, and probably actually did. Still, you can't tell me that bringing Daddy Dearest to Sawyer wasn't an act of vengeance, whatever else it also was.
I wouldn't have thought of the Dalai Lama parallel,
It was instantly obvious to me. I started laughing almost immediately when he started laying out the objects. :)
Knife = manifestation of the part in Locke that resists his destiny, whatever that is?
It occurred to me to wonder, actually, if it wasn't the exact opposite, if the knife, in a sense, already belongs to Locke because it is his destiny, and Richard didn't understand that. But you may be right. There is probably some strong symbolic significance to the idea of Locke choosing the knife over the Book of Law.
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Date: 2008-05-10 04:28 pm (UTC)I wouldn't be Locke for anything. :)
Am currently pondering whether or not Locke is a vengeful person.
I think he tries hard not to be, and succeeds better, perhaps, than most of us would. I think that at the very least, he wanted to mean what he said to Ben, and probably actually did. Still, you can't tell me that bringing Daddy Dearest to Sawyer wasn't an act of vengeance, whatever else it also was.
I wouldn't have thought of the Dalai Lama parallel,
It was instantly obvious to me. I started laughing almost immediately when he started laying out the objects. :)
Knife = manifestation of the part in Locke that resists his destiny, whatever that is?
It occurred to me to wonder, actually, if it wasn't the exact opposite, if the knife, in a sense, already belongs to Locke because it is his destiny, and Richard didn't understand that. But you may be right. There is probably some strong symbolic significance to the idea of Locke choosing the knife over the Book of Law.