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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Oct 10, 2021 22:05:22 GMT -5
Olaf is not as cruel as he believes himself to be. He was willing to let Josephine live. And he saved Kit, at least momentarily. I'm not defending him, but he's not a murderer who kills anyone for no reason. On the other hand, Olaf considers himself his own boss.
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Post by Hermes on Oct 11, 2021 5:09:33 GMT -5
It seems that Olaf's main aim is to get hold of the Baudelaires; he prefers to do this by perusasion or coercion, only resorting to killing when this fails. Also, many fo the deaths which take place around him are accidental (Dr Orwell, the HOIG and so on).
I'm also not sure why you see Monty as an outcast.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Oct 11, 2021 6:36:48 GMT -5
In fact, Olaf's cruelest plan happened on TRR. He committed murder (or tried to commit murder and failed, according to one of Dante's most interesting theories) in order to get close to the kids, and then he killed Uncle Monty, all of which involved forethought. It was probably this event that Fernald referred to when he claimed that they committed more murders than was expected.But this sentence by Fernald already shows that he would expect Olaf to have moral limits that were crossed just a little bit. |
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Oct 14, 2021 15:28:04 GMT -5
If Olaf had any limits he wouldn't have burned down the hotel and hospital with hundreds of people inside. He wouldn't have taken the poison helmet and tried to kill everyone with it... Olaf wants to destroy VFD. Killing multiple VFD members at once is within his limits. But at the hospital, Olaf was kind enough to let everyone know that the fire was starting. |
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