Excellent Point on Unreliable Narrator

[Alex Colter]

The frightening thing to me about Judge Holden is that he does not appear to
suffer from being a symbol, but rather becomes empowered by being one.

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>wrote:

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