Guts and Griffith - What Makes A True Hero?

Life is full of suffering, some might think that everything is meaningless. I mean,

what

's really the point of it all? Why do we exist? What is human nature? Why are you watching this video? Am I even making a comment in this introduction? I'm sorry for making my exit in an eyeless way umm it's easy to fall into existential dread, especially when certain people have been a big jerk, but in my opinion, a

true

hero

is someone who says and willingly accepts the challenge, someone who He has the courage to leave his comfort. zone and discover who they really are someone who does not allow themselves to be overwhelmed by someone malevolent who overcomes their suffering to achieve their fulfillment but rather someone who forges their own means embraces their most intimate and incomparably unique potential, okay, you get the point I'm making.

guts

guts

he's the guy who does this that's why he's the real

hero

yeah I'm going to back up and why I said the last video essentially the point I'm trying to make is be like this guy not like this wait a second The definition of a hero is a person who is admired for his courage, outstanding achievements or noble qualities, so he is more heroic because he is brave, well, Mr.

Griffith, is it because he is strong? Griffith has the power to bend space due to the outstanding achievements of him, well, Griffith, sort of. created a mini paradise is because the noble quality is off, we know the guts, since none of this definition does not mean that Griffith is more of a hero than the guts, according to his definition, that may or may not be

true

. Griffith meets the dictionary. requirements of a hero, but that is something completely superficial, when you think about the mythological hero, there is something about him that resonates with the human psyche on such a deep level that I think it goes a little deeper than liking someone brave enough like to do something great, sometimes for sure.

Griffith may be superficially seen as a hero, but that's only because he takes on the persona of someone very few people know: the Griffith who grows cells to suppress his emotional pain, the Griffith who loses his composure when overcome by primal desire and Griffith who rapes a woman who admired him as a means to spite his best friend and some of the more cynical sociopaths out there might be saying, "Oh, so Griffith did some bad things, I'm deeply sorry too, and I mean it's true, guts did some things." Bad things, let me ask you this: Did Griffith learn something from his mistakes or did he just hold on to his childhood personality?

Did he try to confront his emotional pain or did he simply repress and ignore those feelings? Did he take personal responsibility for the things he did? Or he was overwhelmed by his libido, did he try to improve himself through his own will or did he just know how to give in to causality and use that as an excuse? I'm pretty sure he knows the answers to all of these questions if he didn't. So it's yes, it's one's guts and Griffith faced similar circumstances but make different decisions, they both pursue their own reasons for living, they faced their breaking points, they suffered a lot of suffering and took personal responsibility or placed the responsibility outside of themselves in a evil god organic entity or something, basically, these are challenges that cannot be overcome with just the swing of his sword.

Griffith may embody the persona of a mythical hero, but he loses the internal battles where guts win. Crazy is not about being seen as a hero externally. but being a hero internally is not about looking perfect but growing psychologically from internal conflicts, since we are talking about psychology let's get an IQ of 200. Once there was a guy with a big brain named Carl Jung who I have been with. been obsessed for a long time. Recently, he was a 20th century Swiss psychiatrist and he believed that each person is unique and has a different destiny and that the best way to reach their full potential is to undergo something called individuation, which is defined as a process of psychological integration through which The individual and the collective unconscious abort in consciousness and are assimilated into the entire personality, which distinguishes you from the general collective psychology.

Okay, maybe I'll try to simplify it. It is basically a process of self-actualization in which you try to reach your full potential. making the unconscious parts of yourself basically all those that you are not aware of or do not understand conscious. Jung says that the unconscious contains unrealized potential and discovering these potentials can lead to personal transformation by basically making the unconscious aware that you are aware of

what

you are. a special kind of snowflake, but you can only do it by breaking away from the collective, leaving your comfort zone, following your own path, facing the unknown, without repressing, discovering all the things about yourself in the world that you would rather not know, integrating that. delve into your personality and eventually become your own person, the process is not easy and you will probably suffer a lot, but it provides a decent guide to finding meaning in your life and discovering who you really are.

Well, it's either that or existential fear. Jung relates this process of individuation to the mythological hero's journey and you know who else does it well. Meera definitely read the Jungian psychology into her. There are quite a few references in the manga and, most importantly, she applies this concept of individuation to the mythological hero's journey. guts and Griffith so let's relate this to Graham he did some of this he's not part of the collective but he goes his own way which is pretty cool he determines and pursues his own reason for living which is the first vital step of individuation . he is actually doing quite well and until he fails at everything else, he fails for two reasons: firstly, he repressed emotions that were too difficult to handle instead of looking inward and making the unconscious conscious, he just kept the unconscious unconscious, we see this when self arms, she does this as a sort of coping mechanism for emotional stress, like when she felt a little guilty for causing thousands of deaths and when she had to sleep with a rather mature gentleman, oh, and when her boyfriend left him because well, he uses physical pain to distract himself from his emotional pain, but that's still kind of an avoidance of the problem.

He never tries to confront his pain. Talk directly about it or even come to an agreement with it. He just leaves things unresolved. This brings us to the second topic. He identifies too much with his character as the unwavering, limitless and unbeatable commander of the Falcons ban. Jung says that a character is not a true reflection of who you really are, but rather a mask that you put on in front of other people. Griffith believes that it is necessary to continue these acts to achieve his dream. He wants to appear plausibly strong to keep morale high and take advantage of people, but because of this, he hides his vulnerabilities from himself and others.

Griffith believes that he is the leader of the group. The hawk gang needs to be strong and ambitious, so let me know, ignore all these other emotions. He has been doing this since he was a child, so it culminated in something problematic, besides his ambition, he doesn't really know how to interpret his other feelings or emotions when he is not faking his facade he can act childishly too possessive and impulsive normally not You don't have the words to explain what you're feeling you don't really know how to handle it and you can easily feel overwhelmed if you never face it your inner problems that should never come from them and therefore identifying with this person has repressed your individuality and left Griffith psychologically stunted.

This is important as I believe this emotional immaturity is the reason why he can never understand the guts that Griffith ultimately believed him to be. unbeatable and limitless, but then he realized that it was something beatable and limited. Griffith identified that it was not a true reflection of himself or even reality. The battle at the top of the hill was not just a battle between Gutzon Griffith but a battle between Griffith's personality and In reality, he lost the physical battle and the internal battle. His sword broke and so did his facade. For the first time, the Hawk Gang saw Griffith vulnerable and defeated and he can handle it.

He was too emotionally immature to adequately deal with his pain, so he acted impulsively and all of Griffith was overwhelmed by what Jung would call the shadow. This is basically the part of your unconscious where you repress all your unpleasant desires and emotions. You usually hide these thoughts from society because otherwise people will see you as a horrible human being. actually you are, but there is a problem like my crippling need for anime thighs, the more you repress it, it becomes strong enough to momentarily overwhelm your conscious personality if you are at your breaking point, this is what happened to Griffith, all the malice, jealousy and regrets he suppressed in a shadow to maintain his facade overwhelmed him making him act impulsively he slept with the princess because he wanted control and dominance after losing trust he self-harmed to suppress the emotional pain in his gut when he left and was captured and More or less said it King Jung says that we should not ignore or repress our shadow, but we should try to understand it and allow those thoughts to be accommodated in a socially acceptable way.

He says this will make you more self-accepting and less likely to feel overwhelmed by your shadow, so what am I saying? Well, Griffith didn't do this. Griffith did some things wrong and they were completely his fault. He couldn't understand himself or undergo individuation and it's a shame because I feel like Griffith had the opportunity to mature emotionally. Through his friendship with Guts, Guts was the catalyst for Griffith's emotional development because she was the only person who understood him beyond his personality, she was the reason Griffith kept his sanity during his torture and even made him question the value of your own dream. because in my opinion the guts made Griffith feel more fulfilled than his dream when Griffith was shown this vision during the Eclipse, which was basically his shadow, the path to his dream was always lonely, he needed to see everyone like a corpse to step on.

It's over because that's what his dream required of him, but despite all the dead bodies, you noticed that there is one person who is still alive here. He is on a separate path, but it is not opposed to his dream as Griffith believed. He does not see Griffith as a miraculous saint and gives up. his life for him, but instead of treating him as a person, an equal, a friend, while the hands of god speak to Griffith definitively, he is saying that it is too late to repent and that he has no choice but to tear the guts out of the corpse, simply encourages Griffith to follow his ambition.

Griffith, the Godhand employee, has no choice, as if this is part of causality, while Griffith, the guts employee, made this decision of his own free will and respects him for that and that is what

makes

him guts. be irreplaceable to Griffith. He is someone who encouraged him beyond himself and gave him company. on his lonely path and brought out the individuality that he repressed. Griffith can understand these feelings that gave him the guts because it was difficult for someone who was not familiar with human emotions to be overwhelmed by human emotions if he did not suppress his pain but decided to face it and he understood it and said that maybe he could have discovered what that he really valued, maybe he wouldn't have sacrificed himself.

Griffith realized what he knew, but valued her dream and his personality less than what he valued most, but he didn't understand his friendship with guts. After the Eclipse Griffith is practically the embodiment of his personality, now he is truly strong without limits and practically unbeatable, he has the qualities to achieve his dream, but it is at the cost of abandoning almost everything else. Jung said that the task in life is not to be perfect but to be complete Griffith may seem perfect but he is definitely not complete he is still fragmented he takes two forms one that represents his person and another that represents his shadow he never really grew as a person if Griffith wanted to obtain a true fulfillment in his In life he should have prioritized guts over his dream.

This is why Griffith fails to be a true hero. However, there is one guy with the big jaw who does pull it off. I mentioned that a true hero is someone who follows his own path and brings his unconscious to consciousness, unlike Griffith Gus did both, we all know he left the hawk ban to pursue his own meaning, but what's interesting is that so soon As he gains independence, he enters a forest. Now you may wonder what is so interesting about the soul of the forest. Well, young implies. a hero entering a forest after leaving everything behind is more than just a literal journey through a forest after leaving everything behind.

It is a metaphor for a journey through your mind towards your unconscious. It is said that the hero finds creatures in the forest,some dangerous and some useful. They give you special weapons and resources. It is also said that the hero will gain wisdom from the people he meets and leave the forest more self-aware. What the hero finds in the forest is all a metaphor for how the individual is receptive to the unconscious. If you accept what is, then it will help you realize that your unique potential left everything behind to not only follow its own path but also to understand itself and I mean, that is essentially the process of bringing your unconscious into consciousness. .

Well, maybe you're not convinced that's the case. Ignore the forest metaphors for a moment and then let's get more specific. Guts does not identify with his black swordsman character and learns to open up about his emotions. Guts initially repressed his trauma with Gambino and Donna and this had a bad outcome. He had nightmares. which directly represented the repressed thoughts in his unconscious and lashed out when he was moved when Guts had sex with Casca, his shadow thoughts literally override his consciousness just as he did with Griffith. This is called being shadow possessed and it causes people to act more impulsively, destructively, aggressively and hornily, of course the cutter's possession was customized from his. shadow, he sees his younger self in Casca and strangles her because of his past trauma, but he stops, opens up and talks about something he pressed his whole life, he shows vulnerability and hides nothing and Casca, Epsom, there was no person here .

Guts matured emotionally because he opened up to someone he cared about and in return she cared about him maybe this would have been the case for Griffith if he had prioritized his Guts friendship, this moment was significant for Guts and Casca while Griffith slept with The princess was completely mindless guts won the internal battle against her shadow, while Griffith lost. This is called integrating your shadow and Jung says this is part of the individuation process. Another example of this is the guts of almost the entire black swordsman Hawk, so he was completely motivated. He hates and doesn't care if other people get caught up in his revenge.

He suppressed his thoughts about the Eclipse and avoided Casca because he can face her emotional pain. He had a lonely and self-destructive dream seeing each demon as a corpse and a path towards revenge on Griffith; he adopted a personality; he repressed his emotional pain and was constantly overwhelmed by a shadow; as a result, he stopped his psychological growth; he prioritized his dream over those irreplaceable to him. If he had continued further down this path he would have been completely devoured by the beast of darkness that represents his dark desires and is literally in his shadow, many people criticized this arc saying that it is pointless because it involves guts just killing random demons, but this part of the nonsensical story is Miura's exact points.

I'm not saying this is the right way to get your guts down. Oh, he suddenly stops developing emotionally, matures, and acts like a hero when his actions are dictated by his hatred. Well, imagine my surprise. I'm not saying his hatred isn't justified. I'm just saying that this self-destructive path parallels Griffiths', which is why he encounters similar internal problems and why his ambition is ultimately useless in making him feel truly fulfilled. Miura is showing us that grit stops developing as a character as soon as he stops going through the process. of individuation and when his character starts to develop again oh yeah, when he does that individuation thing again, luckily the guts weren't too far gone at this point, he matured, realized the limitations and adopted a sense of milah t in the crucial moment when he decided to take responsibility.

With his destiny in his own hands without his shadow dictating his actions, he prioritized Casca, someone irreplaceable to him, over his dream. He was no longer oppressed by his problems, but faced his emotional pain head on. He keeps his humanity looking inward, something Griffith couldn't. Oh yeah, and after saving Casca, he enters a forest and gets new equipment and the Berserker Amma is like the most obvious metaphor for the guts integrating his shadow when the guts are devoured by his rage, it's self-destructive, but if he controls, you can use it. that force constructively hmm, I mean we even see Shaka literally enter his psyche, he sees the insides overwhelmed by the thoughts in his shadow and the memories in his unconscious and we even see this symbol that is like an exact parallel to the symbolism of the onion and the profits of guts. control by making the unconscious conscious.

Chiaki delving into her unconscious is a kind of metaphor for the importance of opening up to others and also shows the importance of Casca, she prevents her gut from being overwhelmed by her trauma and is the catalyst for him to strive to achieve it. a heroic ambition rather than an ambition dictated by guts for revenge places the responsibility for evil within himself and her, as opposed to someone else and it is this humility that he eventually wins that

makes

him so attractive, oh yes, and there is also a subtle and not so subtle use of mythological symbolism. that meera uses his sword as guts being called the Dragon Slayer in European myth a dragon is the culmination of every natural predator that humans themselves about is ingrained in our biology that we should be afraid of birds, snakes and fire because the evolution kills a The dragon represents conquering your fear and overcoming adversity, which is something mythological heroes usually like to do.

It's also a metaphor for personal growth by integrating your unconscious, so it's not so subtle. Another common example is the hero waking up the sleeping princess. Yes, it's basically I have a coffin, usually the princess is under some kind of spell and the hero takes many steps to end up freeing her. This is a metaphor for integrating something Young calls anima, which is something I don't fully understand, but I'll get it. Give it an explanation anyway, the anima represents a man's inner femininity and governs things like mood, intuition, intuition, and the ability to love. It represents the relationship of a man with a woman and also his soul, basically, since Guts went on this journey with Cassio, he has become much more contemplative, self-accepting, compassionate, empathetic and capable of having healthy relationships, this could be interpreted as that he integrates the anima and Jung says that once a hero achieves this, the sleeping princess will awaken, oh and now that he has achieved this, Cusco is awake, yes, that definitely. a coincidence, guys, a last example of symbolism is the quotes: the hero travels by boat, fights, the sea monster is swallowed and, upon reaching the belly of the well, searches for the vital organ and cuts it, thus gaining liberation, we see Griffith getting into a situation.

I mean it's canon that enters the deepest layer of the astral realm and encounters a giant organ god. This myth is supposed to represent the death and rebirth of a hero, and while this is the case, it is more of a throwback for Griffith. In my eyes, I think he was swallowed by the monster called causality, but instead of disappearing, he gave in and was overwhelmed by a shadow. His perspective didn't really develop after this, he believes nothing has changed and he doesn't really have any regrets. anything now, in other words the only person who would ironically say that Griffith did nothing wrong is Griffith himself, it's interesting since Guts was in a very similar situation to this, I mean there's a point where he literally travels on boat, fight, sea monster is swallowed, search. the vital organ cuts it and both guts are released and Griffith is metaphorically devoured by the monster but guts is the one who metaphorically vanishes him and kills him with his metaphorical sword called the dragon's lair, being metaphorically reborn on his journey to awaken the sleeping princess metaphorically, I hope you understand the metaphor, it is a commentary on how they both face similar heroic trials, but guts is the only one who manages to overcome his adversity not only through his physical strength but also through his internal strength.

Griffith may have power, respect and a kingdom but he does not have the human integrity and guts of self-acceptance. I think even if

griffith

takes over the whole world, he will never feel satisfied because he wastes something irreplaceable. People admire

griffith

for his personality, not for his true self and people admire guts not for his personality but for the person he really is. I think the reason I find Griffiths so interesting is that his internal conflicts are so universally human and it is this distinction between guts and Griffith that makes me comment on how important and powerful the personal is.

Growth may be why I find guts to be one of the most inspiring and well-written characters in manga, so if you're going to get anything out of this video, don't hold back, don't put up a facade, face the unknown. go to the forest kill the dragon and don't make pretentious videos about berserk wait a second