Trickster

We talked a lot about the trickster having an appetite and that being what drove the actions of this character. What seemed to keep popping up in my mind is that the trickster enjoys balance, and that this balance may be the actual long term incentive for the obscene person. Yes one of the tools are chaos, but that seems to be used to balance out some sort of deficiency with in the society. Robin Hood comes to mind when I think about this chaos creating balance. This "hero" reeks havoc on the rich, but his actions bring up the financial status of the poor. Yes in the Disney version there is some morals behind these actions, but as we stated in class, but in the less child like version this could just be the character being obscene and seeing beyond just the scene of the poor being unfairly treated, as seeing that in-order to keep the balance of his environment he needs to create chaos in the rich society. Also, because the trickster resides in the liminal space, there is a need to have some sort of balance between the world of the immortal, and the human race. The trickster needs both of these places to thrive in-order for his threshold or move between world to exist. If only one area is dominant, then his world no longer serves a purpose. This is why this character will steal items form the gods and give them to the humans. While it is seen as a great deed by the humans, it is really just a way to preserve this neither nor space where the obscene lives.