It just doesn't make sense to me, because it's letting something completely artificial influence you. Like, there could be a brave and good willed character, and you can say "That inspires me." but it's the writer giving them those traits, and the writer obviously isn't like that or other characters in the story, they give them their traits.
To put it a different way: there are characters that you may strive to be like, or whose actions you may think are just and you try to think in a more just and objective way. Just because it's fictional doesn't mean it can't be influential.
drinkwine732Posts: 20,418destroyer of motherfuckers
Seriously thinking, I still would not see how a fictional character can influence your life as a whole. It's just dumb to me. Real people of course, but fictional characters don't actually contribute to the world or do anything. They might have "admirable" traits, but that's the writer speaking, not them.
You don't think that a character in a book or movie could have a philosophy or mindset that changes the way you think?
I know you have a "fuck the world I won't change for it" type of personality, but seriously. I can say fairly comfortably that fictional characters have influenced my life the same amount as real people.
Holden Caulfield, Odysseus, the Big Brother concept, Samwise Gamgee, Ahab, could go on forever.
For a good example, if you read Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, you know what Snape did. If not, well then....read the book lol.
But to save asshurt and to not ruin it for the people that haven't read it yet, I'll just say this.
I find what he did in that particular book to be extremely admirable and it showed true courage and love all at the same time, he had a good heart.
However, I realize that he's fictional and it was a writer who made him like that, completely artificial. That could never influence me as a person, no matter how admirable I found his actions as a fictional character to be.
drinkwine732Posts: 20,418destroyer of motherfuckers
One of the reasons why I enjoy Hemingway so much is because of his characters. They all have some vice, be it cowardice, be it pompousness, whatever. In a lot of his books, they either attempt to overcome those and succeed or fail and die/something bad happens.
It's characters like that, no matter how fake, that send messages to me.
The characters are real but what they represent is far from it.
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I know you have a "fuck the world I won't change for it" type of personality, but seriously. I can say fairly comfortably that fictional characters have influenced my life the same amount as real people.
Holden Caulfield, Odysseus, the Big Brother concept, Samwise Gamgee, Ahab, could go on forever.
For a good example, if you read Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, you know what Snape did. If not, well then....read the book lol.
But to save asshurt and to not ruin it for the people that haven't read it yet, I'll just say this.
I find what he did in that particular book to be extremely admirable and it showed true courage and love all at the same time, he had a good heart.
However, I realize that he's fictional and it was a writer who made him like that, completely artificial. That could never influence me as a person, no matter how admirable I found his actions as a fictional character to be.
It's characters like that, no matter how fake, that send messages to me.
The characters are real but what they represent is far from it.
What am I influenced by on the internet?
And no, the internet isn't fiction. If so, then every single one of us are fictional characters. <_>
Woah, deja vu.