The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever

[Wayfarer]

o.O What on earth are you thinking of?

[Lenya]

Originally Posted by juntel

Well, Covenant isn't our typical hero: he doesn't want to fully 'play the game' in this fantasy world.
Not only doesn't he know how to use the power the people of the Land tell him he has, he also might not want to use it if he knew, since for him all this is a dangerous dream/illusion that gives him power, sensations, purpose, hope; whereas the REAL world (the one he and you and I live in) refuses him all of that.

There lies the 'fundamental question of ethics' he was confronted with by the old beggar before he fell unconscious and found himself into the Land.

So he refuses to help when he is asked to, rather than be the hero any fantasy novel would expect him to be.
And when he does try to help, he fumbles, with dire consequences for the Land.

Likeable? He is not supposed to be.
He's a rapist after all...

I know, that's why I don't like the story.

[juntel]

Understandable.