LOST: Jacob's "godlike" aspects
May. 17th, 2009 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stefanie_beanJacob = "God?"
Some parallels between Jacob and God - some perception of God, anyway. Some thoughts which came to me (and I'm sure there are more...)
- Jacob (up till this episode) has been unseen, yet a powerful force in the lives of The Others. He communicates with one certain person ("The leader") and apparently in some ways also with Richard ("the advisor," who seems to be a kind of "Aaron" to the Leader's "Moses.")
- He seems to be picking out certain "chosen" ones, and not always those we would expect. For instance, he intercepts Kate in thievery, and the first person saved by Jesus while on the Cross is "the good thief."
- Jacob has a nemesis; this relates to the Zoroastrian idea of a universe divided between the powerful force for good, and one of evil, eternally struggling with each other.
- Jacob now has obviously been shown to have some kind of larger-than-life powers.
- Jacob, like Richard Alpert, doesn't age - but Alpert attributes his lack of aging to what Jacob has done for/to him.
- Jacob is shown eating roasted fish by the oceanside. Jesus after his resurrection eats roasted fish with the apostles.
- Jacob seems to be able to bring the dead back to life (Locke after his fall from the window), or at least heal.
- He doesn't answer Ben's objections ("What about me? Me? Me?") with much, except something reminiscent of God's answer to Job when Job complains about his lot, i.e. in essence, "You are a noob and don't know what you're talking about."
- His silence in the face of Ben's accusations are reminiscent of Jesus's mostly-silent response to Pontius Pilate.
- He doesn't seem to fight when Ben stabs him (Jesus's willingness to die without resistance, even though he doesn't have to.)
- Jacob seems to dispense blessings, or at least tell people to identify the blessings they have (i.e. his encounter with Hurley in the taxicab.)
- Jacob seems "Aslan-like" to me, with his blond hair and beard. And I've thought more than once that The Island is like Narnia (Eloise Hawking *does* refer to "the lamppost"), with perhaps some kind of window into "Aslan's country" (the foot of the statue?)
- Jacob dies in what's already a "sacred space" (the foot of the statue/sanctuary.) Jesus was crucified on Calvary, called "the place of the skull" for a reason. Traditionally, Adam was said to have been buried on that very spot - the skull in Golgotha/Calvary was Adam's. So Jacob has died, perhaps, at the very point where 'it all began.'
* * * * *
Also, Ben seems to be a Judas Iscariot type. The folk thinking often makes Judas quite jealous of Jesus's attention. It's an expression of a real human conundrum - *why* does God "allow" some to suffer, and seemingly reward others so freely? From Cain on, the question still persists - "Why him and not me, when it comes to passing out favors?" That ties in I guess w/ Jacob "blessing" some and not others.
Some parallels between Jacob and God - some perception of God, anyway. Some thoughts which came to me (and I'm sure there are more...)
- Jacob (up till this episode) has been unseen, yet a powerful force in the lives of The Others. He communicates with one certain person ("The leader") and apparently in some ways also with Richard ("the advisor," who seems to be a kind of "Aaron" to the Leader's "Moses.")
- He seems to be picking out certain "chosen" ones, and not always those we would expect. For instance, he intercepts Kate in thievery, and the first person saved by Jesus while on the Cross is "the good thief."
- Jacob has a nemesis; this relates to the Zoroastrian idea of a universe divided between the powerful force for good, and one of evil, eternally struggling with each other.
- Jacob now has obviously been shown to have some kind of larger-than-life powers.
- Jacob, like Richard Alpert, doesn't age - but Alpert attributes his lack of aging to what Jacob has done for/to him.
- Jacob is shown eating roasted fish by the oceanside. Jesus after his resurrection eats roasted fish with the apostles.
- Jacob seems to be able to bring the dead back to life (Locke after his fall from the window), or at least heal.
- He doesn't answer Ben's objections ("What about me? Me? Me?") with much, except something reminiscent of God's answer to Job when Job complains about his lot, i.e. in essence, "You are a noob and don't know what you're talking about."
- His silence in the face of Ben's accusations are reminiscent of Jesus's mostly-silent response to Pontius Pilate.
- He doesn't seem to fight when Ben stabs him (Jesus's willingness to die without resistance, even though he doesn't have to.)
- Jacob seems to dispense blessings, or at least tell people to identify the blessings they have (i.e. his encounter with Hurley in the taxicab.)
- Jacob seems "Aslan-like" to me, with his blond hair and beard. And I've thought more than once that The Island is like Narnia (Eloise Hawking *does* refer to "the lamppost"), with perhaps some kind of window into "Aslan's country" (the foot of the statue?)
- Jacob dies in what's already a "sacred space" (the foot of the statue/sanctuary.) Jesus was crucified on Calvary, called "the place of the skull" for a reason. Traditionally, Adam was said to have been buried on that very spot - the skull in Golgotha/Calvary was Adam's. So Jacob has died, perhaps, at the very point where 'it all began.'
* * * * *
Also, Ben seems to be a Judas Iscariot type. The folk thinking often makes Judas quite jealous of Jesus's attention. It's an expression of a real human conundrum - *why* does God "allow" some to suffer, and seemingly reward others so freely? From Cain on, the question still persists - "Why him and not me, when it comes to passing out favors?" That ties in I guess w/ Jacob "blessing" some and not others.