I think the evaluation of how heroic someone is is pretty much just a measure of how much we would like to be that person.
What? No way. It’s what I want other people to perceive me as being and it is what I want other people to actually be. I want Frodo to get burnt out and stretched like butter over too much bread while saving the world. I don’t want to actually be Frodo… such a pansy!
I meant that in the sense of desiring to have the characteristics of that person, not be put in the same situation. I do not want to have to get burnt out and stretched like butter over too much bread. I would like to think that if the world needed saving, I would have the moral strength to do that. I want to be Frodo, but not actually have to suffer through Frodo’s quest. Different things.
Of course, in the absence of Sauron and the One Ring and all that, Frodo would presumably have lived a pleasant and unremarkable life in the Shire, and your understanding of what it means to be Frodo would be completely different.
What? No way. It’s what I want other people to perceive me as being and it is what I want other people to actually be. I want Frodo to get burnt out and stretched like butter over too much bread while saving the world. I don’t want to actually be Frodo… such a pansy!
I meant that in the sense of desiring to have the characteristics of that person, not be put in the same situation. I do not want to have to get burnt out and stretched like butter over too much bread. I would like to think that if the world needed saving, I would have the moral strength to do that. I want to be Frodo, but not actually have to suffer through Frodo’s quest. Different things.
So did I.
I would unsurprisingly prefer you to be Frodo than to be Frodo myself.
Of course, in the absence of Sauron and the One Ring and all that, Frodo would presumably have lived a pleasant and unremarkable life in the Shire, and your understanding of what it means to be Frodo would be completely different.