No this is not me making a wise arsed Halloween blog. Death may be an odd hero figure. For me personally do not think so. The figure of Death in a fantasy novel brings a very real sense to the whole story. The beings of fantasy worlds are like us and have a life cycle. The Grim Reaper gives a continuity to a series of novels, Death in Discworld being a prime example.
Dealing with mortality in fantasy can help us deal with it in reality. If everyone was immortal and good in a novel would anyone actually bother to read it. I very much doubt it. There has to be conflicts, power struggles etc to keep the reader interested.
For me the Grim Reaper is not some evil overlord. She is an angel, a dark one possibly, most are if you annoy them, but nonetheless an angel. It is quite comforting really to know when the time comes, crossing from physical to spiritual that angel will be with me.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
The Grim Reaper
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im made a cartoon about the grim reaper its real cool but im trying to see if any body made a cartoon about him being a superhero im 15 and im trying to get found with my art
The only heroic Death/Grim Reaper I can think of is Death in Discworld. The author is Terry Pratchett and its probably worth your while looking at that. A hero in the sense of Spiderman well that I don't think has been done, a Manga/anime reaper yeah that sounds cool I'd like to see that.
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