On the Theme of the Traitor and the Hero

The concept of a circular, redundant, inherited existence is haunting, not only for Borges, but for all of those who have thought about it. The earth functions in cycles and mere repetition of events, and the traitor and the hero are the same and vice versa. Borges also pays much attention to the idea of Destiny, to the idea that everything is written, crafted and thought long before is occurrence.

I must agree almost entirely these ideas (I say almost entirely rather than entirely because that would just be a self inflicted, foolish verdict). The fieldwork I have done to come to such conclusions is based on simple observation and reading. If you take all the stories mentioned in this story by Borges and apply them to each other, you have evidence. Take history, any event, as singular as it may seem, and it still reinvents itself as time goes by. Men and women function in cycles, the world functions in cycles and the earth cycles around the sun, and this process is blown to infinite repetition. If this is not enough, I think of smaller slices of reality, like the ages of a human, who is more similar than a child and an elder? But I guess coming to such conclusions from this story is drifting away too far. I am just genuinely interested in the adaptation of this piece, and in seeing how these concepts of the story are translated to the screen.