Who has read Blood Meridian and also thinks Judge Holden

>>7828090
I have read Blood Meridian and I think the Judge was the devil. Mind you, he's not ONLY the devil. He's the MODERN devil. What do you think all that shit he's spouting about naming things is up to?

The book is basically a manifestation in prose of McCarthy's own ambivalence about materialist monism and its relationships to our value structures. It's basically challenging readers to say that what happens in the book is reprehensible without also denying the Judge's power, because the Judge's power, if granted, casts doubt on the validity of the reader's judgments about the events in the book.

To wit, if this world is nothing but what we make of it and all really is fair in love and war, and no higher power to say otherwise, how can you be appalled by the rape of children and the skewering of infants on trees? You may hunt the Judge down and try to kill him, but that doesn't make him wrong... and as you may have noticed, the Judge is unkillable and he still dances and is a great favorite.

He never dies.

Anonymous 2016-03-19 21:36:29 Post No.7829568
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>>7829199
Thank you!

Anonymous 2016-03-19 21:40:37 Post No.7829579
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>>7829199
>He never dies.
He loses his power though, when the west is tamed and civilized, symbolized by the fence maker in the epilogue.

Anonymous 2016-03-20 01:21:43 Post No.7830149
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Anonymous 2016-03-20 01:21:43 Post No.7830149 [Report]

Mccarthy wrote blood meridian to be his "Moby Dick". The way I see it, both books have the same conflict of man against God. The difference lies in each author's interpretation of God. Judge Holden is Mccarthy's idea of God on earth, hence the Judge's suzerain ideal.

Anonymous 2016-03-20 01:42:45 Post No.7830229
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>>7829199
WRONG

Anonymous 2016-03-20 14:41:04 Post No.7831944
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>>7828090
He was obviously an Enginieer, hiding out on Earth.

Anonymous 2016-03-20 14:43:33 Post No.7831950
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>>7828090
>>7828104
What about Aslan? How does he factor into this?

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