On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:42:35 -0800 (PST) M nova_m1@excite.co.uk writes: Do we
need Avon to not have committed this crime so much, we try to absolve him?
For me, killing Blake is one step too far (the same if Avon had killed Vila). Without extenuating circumstances, this is just more than I can take from him. But, I think it's also more than he can take as a character. An Avon who has knowingly killed Blake has destroyed something essential about himself. Whatever Blake symbolized to him - hope, idealism, selflessness - and whatever part of him (however grudgingly) connected to that is dead.
Maybe the right term isn't absolve so much as absolution, the idea that forgiveness and redemption are miracles that occur outside the individual. For the story to go on, that's what's needed. Either Avon needs to be credibly separated from full guilt or an equally credible party needs to forgive him (probably Blake, unless a very good argument can be made for someone else).
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