![]() ![]() Let's remember this is the same guy from a game over 10 years ago. He's not a "hero" in the true sense of the word, which is apparently what the OP is trying to say.Īnd at the time, Sephiroth had about as much/little dimension as any other video game villain of his day. That's enough to earn the superficial label of "hero." He was looked up to by the masses and seen as a celebrity. He was the go to SOLDIER who handled crises and was instrumental in ending the war with Wutai. ![]() He was a manufactured super SOLDIER, who was popular, legendary, and extremely powerful. I think people are taking his label as "hero" too literally here. ![]() Whether his fate evokes a feeling of catharsis is up to the individual to decide, I guess. Thus, instead of being a Tragic Hero, he becomes a mere cardboard villain - possibly even a puppet, controlled by a malign inhuman will.ĭespite all of this, some people still find Sephiroth empathetic and feel pity for what happens to him. So they must remain fully human, with everything in the way of flaws and virtues which that entails. We can't really imagine ourselves in their shoes. If they aren't human, we can't empathise with them. They must also suffer, and their suffering must exceed what their crimes deserve. The Tragic Hero has to be conscious of their own destruction. Macbeth, for example, sees every step of the way that what he's doing is wrong, and gradually becomes more and more aware that by making his first mistake (trusting the witches, killing Duncan) he ias trapped in a downward spiral from which there's no turning back. They must have a better understanding of reality at the end than they did at the beginning. Tragic heroes cannot be insane: they must be fully aware of their downfall, their loss, what caused it, and to what extent they are to blame. It's a false anagnoresis, and as a result, it leads not to enlightenment but to insanity/s] the loss of his humanity. Sephiroth experiences "anagnoresis" - recognition - when he discovers that Jenova is his "mother", but it's not a true anagnoresis because he doesn't truly understand what she is or what role she plays in his life. In this sense, Sephiroth is 'cursed' from the start. In Sephiroth's case, Hojo has been playing god, and has mistaken Jenova for an Ancient. he loses his position in life through a "hamartia", a tragic flaw or mistake, for which he is not entirely responsible. ![]() he starts off as a person of high status he is successful, admired, respected, and popular Sephiroth does fit Aristotle's model of a "Tragic Hero" (I'm studying Oedipus Rex with my grade 11s right now) in some ways: In essence Sephiroth's title of a hero was just a shallow image that was only used to profit Shinra. I think this also offers a better explanation for why he turned evil.Mainly because his image of a hero was all he was and there was hints he might have actually resented it.All his life was a lie including himself as some sorta of hero and casted it off when he went nuts. I also got the notion from watching his cutscenses that he was actually more of a mix of Lawful Nuetral and True Neutral.I always felt that Sephiroth actually wasn't fighting for some greater good but because he was taking orders from the company that basically raised him since day one.Heck,even Elfie questions him about what he is really fighting for. I know that Sephiroth has been labeled a fallen hero in a lot of Final Fantasy spinoffs and the general consious.But when one looks closer then you might realize that Sephiroth wasn't really a hero but only had the image of one.You might make a case that Sephiroth was a decent person before he went evil but when he was with Shinra one could say he was just their poster boy to get people into the Wutai War. ![]()
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