#there's willingness or unwillingness to perform that role (some 'tricksters' are doomed by the narrative)
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blood-orange-juice · 1 month ago
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Spicy take: I'm starting to think that the concept of "trickster" is about just as meaningful as the concept of Hero's Journey.
Sure, you can fit a lot of stories into it and some were written with that specific archetype in mind but also it conflates Joker, Odysseus, Br'er Rabit and Slavic folktales protagonists and I don't think these should belong in the same category.
Boundary crossing can be done for many reasons and in many ways. The need to lump all such characters into a single category says more about our over-reliance on rigid structures, the lack of play in our culture and a desperate need for something else.
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