Examples of a character winning by violating his…
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Examples of a character winning by violating his principles and beliefs?
I'm not exactly sure what this trope is called, but I'd like to know if there is such a terminology and further examples of it.
The best example of this would be Gaitok from season 3 *The White Lotus*, as explained by the showrunner Mike White: "To take a guy that you're really rooting for, and you understand his sensitive nature, and becoming a hero to his girl, and a hero to his work, and the only way to do it is by going against his spiritual beliefs."
But I'm wondering if there are literary examples specific to this. The only one that I can think of is George Smiley of John le Carré's *Karla Trilogies* who wins against Karla by using Karla's methods to his disgust.
Apostasy is is usually presented thematically as a tragedy (Endo's *Silence*) or as liberation (Hawthorne's *The Scarlet Letter*) but surely there are more examples of it being ambivalent and bittersweet.
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I'm not exactly sure what this trope is called, but I'd like to know if there is such a terminology and further examples of it.
The best example of this would be Gaitok from season 3 *The White Lotus*, as explained by the showrunner Mike White: "To take a guy that you're really rooting for, and you understand his sensitive nature, and becoming a hero to his girl, and a hero to his work, and the only way to do it is by going against his spiritual beliefs."
But I'm wondering if there are literary examples specific to this. The only one that I can think of is George Smiley of John le Carré's *Karla Trilogies* who wins against Karla by using Karla's methods to his disgust.
Apostasy is is usually presented thematically as a tragedy (Endo's *Silence*) or as liberation (Hawthorne's *The Scarlet Letter*) but surely there are more examples of it being ambivalent and bittersweet.
#entertainment
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