Dragon Rider Archetype
The Madness of Men and the World they Create
The world of Alagaesia is certainly an interesting place. Elves, dwarves, dragons, and creatures called Urgals. Running wild with magic, and clashes on an epic scale. Into this world, there were born a few, rather extraordinary, men, even for this world. Galbatorix a Dragon Rider of the order, destroyer of an era of peace and prosperity, Eragon a farmer boy who became one of the legendary Dragon Riders, and Sloan a simple butcher who became significant through his involvement with Eragon’s family. These men all made choices driven by things they perhaps could not control or fully understand. With the use of the archetype of one who does wrong for the right reasons, Christopher Paolini shows us just …show more content…
Yet there were a couple of times when he could have done something a little different than what he choose to do. For example, while the Ra’zac were undoubtedly evil in their actions. They were a sentient race of Alagaesia. Refusing to remember them in stories is a horrible choice. Forgetting an enemy and what they put you through is an excellent way to repeat the past (Rob Oakes). “Those you do not learn history are doomed to repeat it (George Santayana). Finally, the true reason Eragon is in this list with murderers like Sloan and Galbatorix, because he is one himself. On the way back from killing the Ra’zac Eragon meets with a group of soldiers. Having to fight, he starts fighting and kills many of them, but one young soldier starts running away. Eragon catches up quickly and kills the soldier with a quick squeeze of the neck (Paolini, Brisingr pg 152). Now Eragon of course had reasons for killing the guard, but they seem to fall a little short of being entirely believable. The guard could alert Murtaugh and his dragon Thorn to his general location and there’s no way that Eragon could fight either or both of them on his own. However, I feel that despite that Eragon could have simply put the soldier to sleep instead of killing him. Also after killing them mutilating the bodies just to cover up the fact that someone besides normal soldiers killed them was a bit much (Rob Oakes). Even if it wasn’t necessarily Eragon’s
The world of Alagaesia is certainly an interesting place. Elves, dwarves, dragons, and creatures called Urgals. Running wild with magic, and clashes on an epic scale. Into this world, there were born a few, rather extraordinary, men, even for this world. Galbatorix a Dragon Rider of the order, destroyer of an era of peace and prosperity, Eragon a farmer boy who became one of the legendary Dragon Riders, and Sloan a simple butcher who became significant through his involvement with Eragon’s family. These men all made choices driven by things they perhaps could not control or fully understand. With the use of the archetype of one who does wrong for the right reasons, Christopher Paolini shows us just …show more content…
Yet there were a couple of times when he could have done something a little different than what he choose to do. For example, while the Ra’zac were undoubtedly evil in their actions. They were a sentient race of Alagaesia. Refusing to remember them in stories is a horrible choice. Forgetting an enemy and what they put you through is an excellent way to repeat the past (Rob Oakes). “Those you do not learn history are doomed to repeat it (George Santayana). Finally, the true reason Eragon is in this list with murderers like Sloan and Galbatorix, because he is one himself. On the way back from killing the Ra’zac Eragon meets with a group of soldiers. Having to fight, he starts fighting and kills many of them, but one young soldier starts running away. Eragon catches up quickly and kills the soldier with a quick squeeze of the neck (Paolini, Brisingr pg 152). Now Eragon of course had reasons for killing the guard, but they seem to fall a little short of being entirely believable. The guard could alert Murtaugh and his dragon Thorn to his general location and there’s no way that Eragon could fight either or both of them on his own. However, I feel that despite that Eragon could have simply put the soldier to sleep instead of killing him. Also after killing them mutilating the bodies just to cover up the fact that someone besides normal soldiers killed them was a bit much (Rob Oakes). Even if it wasn’t necessarily Eragon’s