He was going mad for mundane reasons, but he was actually going mad faster
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 21/03/2013 04:56:07 AM
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.....but I was really wondering what RJ actually wrote at the end of the book. I just thought that the final scene was rather ordinary, that's all.
.....but I was really wondering what RJ actually wrote at the end of the book. I just thought that the final scene was rather ordinary, that's all.
View original postAs for the epilogue, you have to keep in mind that RJ started this series out asking the question: How would it feel like to know you have to save the world, while knowing you are going mad?
This is an interesting point since RJ essentially abandoned it at the end of book 9 when saidan was cleansed. So, for 4 books, Rand was going mad anymore (or at least not getting worse).
It was the pressures of his obligations and that very question that worked to drive him mad through ordinary psychological means. IMO, that actually adds something to that particular point, since there was never any real fear that Rand would completely and irredeemably succumb to the taint, while it was getting kind of dicey at the end there if he would go too far in some way that might have serious costs.
Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
What was the "ending" that RJ had in mind for all of these years?
- 20/03/2013 04:37:22 AM
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That was what he wrote, so I would say yeah
- 20/03/2013 03:50:40 PM
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But was it only that one small, specific scene? Not the entire epilogue chapter? *NM*
- 20/03/2013 08:13:14 PM
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No, it was the whole epilogue
- 20/03/2013 08:29:39 PM
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Hm.
- 20/03/2013 08:34:34 PM
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There were a LOT of parallels between the epilogue and the first prologue in EOTW
- 20/03/2013 11:50:45 PM
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The entire story, including the re-Sealing of Shai'tan's bore, was RJ's story.
- 20/03/2013 11:56:45 PM
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Oh, I'm sure BS wrote all of the main points that RJ wanted.....
- 21/03/2013 12:51:08 AM
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Rand was already mad by that point. This is pretty well established. *NM*
- 21/03/2013 04:02:33 AM
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He was going mad for mundane reasons, but he was actually going mad faster
- 21/03/2013 04:56:07 AM
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I'm of the opinion that we we will never know the exact details
- 21/03/2013 10:11:43 PM
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I like to think that he intended to give more of the secendary characters their payoff
- 22/03/2013 02:48:47 AM
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