The thing is that the scapegoat is the low which is made high for a time (fed at the city's expense) before it is made low again and expelled from the city or killed. And these are all people who have become important just by reason of their very survival, but who before (with the exception of Baltar) weren't probably that important.
I don't actually see Laura so much as a messiah/divinity archetype but more as the prophetess type. Which is sort of worse to me because the gods have a place in a family structure (even the ones like Hades who otherwise are all on their own); the prophet is often the person who doesn't fit terribly well within the social structure because they're human but have access to divine knowledge - as with Sibyl in her cave, Cassandra, Teresias (who does all that gender-bending) and Calchas. Also, I like the fact that the famous female seers in Greek myth have very ambigious relationships with the gods (well, they won't sleep with them at any rate in the case of Cassandra and the Sibyl). I’m not sure that makes any difference in the screwedness category of Roslin, though it does make a difference in the relationship to the divine.
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Date: 2005-08-27 01:31 pm (UTC)I don't actually see Laura so much as a messiah/divinity archetype but more as the prophetess type. Which is sort of worse to me because the gods have a place in a family structure (even the ones like Hades who otherwise are all on their own); the prophet is often the person who doesn't fit terribly well within the social structure because they're human but have access to divine knowledge - as with Sibyl in her cave, Cassandra, Teresias (who does all that gender-bending) and Calchas. Also, I like the fact that the famous female seers in Greek myth have very ambigious relationships with the gods (well, they won't sleep with them at any rate in the case of Cassandra and the Sibyl). I’m not sure that makes any difference in the screwedness category of Roslin, though it does make a difference in the relationship to the divine.