Apr-01-2011, 04:31 PM (UTC)
(Apr-01-2011, 01:47 AM (UTC))redchild Wrote: The Fool is one that would be fascinating to read, but I'd imagine it would be very difficult. That said, I think seeing the Fool in all his different alter-egos through the eyes of others could be just as interesting.
I have been thinking about the POV of the Farseer sextet a lot lately. I think that RH very brilliantly only lets us see the Fool through Fitz's eyes. It makes our connection to the Fool very one-sided, 'tis true, but it's also very intimate, and tells us a lot about both characters. Fitz misinterprets a lot of the Fool's actions and words, but he gets them down on paper pretty faithfully, so that we see, even when Fitz doesn't, where the Fool is coming from (I am thinking in particular of instances when the Fool betrays some emotion that Fitz SOMEHOW refuses to see, e.g the Fool's nonverbal reaction when Fitz goes to see Lord Golden at the end of GF, and says "Beloved, I have missed your company."
Also, because of their Skill link, we are privy to the strange "otherness" that is the Fool, the details of which no other person in the world can truly see.
These two characters' lives, hearts and fates are so closely joined, it is apt that we only perceive one through the eyes of the other. (I have more to say about the Fitz POV but I'll leave it be for now...)