Excellent Point on Unreliable Narrator

[Richard Ryan]

The Judge suffers from being a symbol rather than a human being.


On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Edward A Moore <edmoorester at gmail.com> wrote:
> My bad.
>
> The Judge is a bad guy and he kills the good guy in the end.
>
> The Judge is one reliably evil villain.
>
> ed
>
> That the judge is an asshole, or in traditional terms, a bad guy or
> villian, does not render his statement unreliable. What makes a
> narrator or character-narrator unreliable is that his statements are
> at odds with the implied author's norms. Is this is the case with the
> judge in McCarthy's BM?
>
> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 11:48 PM,  <edmoorester at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not
>> constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what
>> exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more
>> things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order
>> in creation which you see is that which you have put there,
>> like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way.
>> For existence has its own order and that no man=92s mind can
>> compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others."
>>
>> "Blood Meridian"
>> by Cormac McCarthy
>>
>> The Judge(think Marlon Brando in "Apocalypse Now") in this
>> book quoted above was an asshole so unreliable narrator thingee
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