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The point of the book has always touched upon the warlike nature of humanity. In many ways the book can be surmised in the Judgeâs speech on war. Rather than being some embodiment of war or the devil, or a demon, the Judge is the embodiment of humanityâs worst traits; his love of war and violence, rape, and murder and his ability to do horrendous and despicable things (the rape and murder of children, cannibalism, etc). McCarthy is lamenting how those parts of humanity follows him wherever he goes, and doesnât sleep (it happens all over the world every day) and it will never die out so long as humanity exists.
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i donât think blood meridian would work as a movie, but iâve always thought the most interesting way to adapt the book would be as a show. maybe 6-10 1 hour episodes, but the catch is every episode has different actors to sort of portray the different ways the characters are viewed by the readers. the one constant, however, would be the judge.
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One could argue that the Judge is a cosmic horror entity and represent the violence and cruelty of the universe. Like in the Cthulhu Mythos, the character Nyrolothotep who wonders the world in various guises and loves to manipulate mankind to create chaos, violence, and war, because he sees Humanity as his plaything and enjoys the chaos that he brings into the hearts of men.
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Can we just stop and admit that the portrait of Judge Holden in the thumbnail is one of the most terrifying works of fan art in history? Yes yes, there's tons of fan art that make our eyes bleed and venture into the realms of the literally unspeakable, but that particular painting conveys all the nihilism, brutality and lawlessness of the novel. Like every curve, contour, angle, shade and stroke in that portrait echoes the inhumanity of Blood Meridian. And that FACE...
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I just finished this novel. Throughout the book, the way Judge is described at various parts - giant, nude, hairless, imposing, dominant etc. - strikes me as being representative rather than any actual individual. Like an infant US, or the spirit of a massive, powerful cherub, unaware and uncaring of its power or even a sense of its evil as the gang (perhaps representing Eminent Domain and expansion) destructively rolls through the West. Judge is the Kid's own tortured conscience, randomly and oddly appearing (as when Kid is in jail awaiting is own hanging). We know he's following the kid, and the kid had opportunity to kill Judge, but didn't. Instead, the Kid was able to temporarily expunge the imagery, guilt, shame, self-loathing during his twenties and thirties, only to later return when Kid is the Man. I'm thinking this is the conscience and revisiting of his (Man's) own evil and horrible doings. The dance is the madness roiling in the Man's thoughts as he revisits his awful sins, culminating in the Man violently ending his horror by killing himself in the outhouse. In fact, maybe The Kid, himself, is representative of the adolescent country, and its revisiting its own horrible past as it becomes the middle aged adult.
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I think he's just a sociopath with a genius level intelligence, probably has PTSD from being an officer during the Texas revolution. But is so self aware that he knows all this about himself and just decides to revel in the same trauma and violence that created him believing himself to be the better man simply because he's honest about himself and the nature of man
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He's like that supervillain mutant from the X-men, Apocalypse. Believed to be the first mutant, who also stood 7 ft tall, he lived throughout different ages of human history, acquiring a vast and superior knowledge on all things, and inciting wars and pestilence where ever he went.
In fact, in one of the passages, McCarthy did indeed defined Judge Holden as a "mutant". "In that sleep and in sleeps to follow the judge did visit. Who would come other? A great shambling mutant, silent and serene."
Both characters appeared at around the same time. I wonder if the creation of the comic book character was inspired by McCarthy's Blood Meridian character.
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@lbwlawyer
8 months ago
Iâm from Nacogdoches, and I can truthfully say weâve never had a goat rapist. That sounds much more like a Shelby County issue.
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