Death And The Miser Theme

The theme I chose for Death and the Miser is “Your choices will decide your fate.” This theme applies to the story because the Miser was a nice young man until he decided to join the crusade, where he chose to kill civilians, loot their towns and burn their houses. He later would carry out this behavior when he bought indulgences for what he had done, and another for what he will do. Through his final choice of taking the money from the demon, the miser seals his fate. I chose a video game and a book because I feel that demonstrate the importance of choices and how they affect your fate.

My first genre that I chose was a video game, The Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask. In the game there are two characters that I feel represent the miser,
they are Link and Skull kid. I’ll start with Skull kid because he represents the current Miser, throughout the game you discover his story of how he was just a lonely kid who felt that his friends, the temple guardians, had abandoned him so he decided to take revenge. He is like the Miser because he too changed because of an event that happened to him, maybe the Miser was abandoned by a comrade or they were killed causing him to want to take revenge. Now you’re probably wondering how is Link included in this, well like a coin there are three sides to this story, this is the second side, Link is what the Miser could have been. Link is what the Miser was before and what he could have been if the event that changed him never happened or if he didn’t change him, causing him to never buy an extra indulgence. Link is just like young Miser able to choose his fate.

The other genre I chose was the book Origin by Jessica Khoury. I chose this book because there is a character named Pia who like the miser has an awful story of her past as a result of horrible choices, like the Miser and the horrible choice that led him to chose the demon with the gold. Later when the power of choice was turned over to Pia, she makes the arguably wrong choice like the Miser. So you understand what I’m talking about I’ll give you a brief summary, deep in the jungle there is a compound called or Little Cam there lives a team of scientist who have dedicated their lives to creating the perfect human, a truly immortal being that just happens to be Pia. There would have been her perfect man, genetically speaking there are flaws with that, but it never happened because of the “accident”. So now you know the basics about the book, if you remember in the last paragraph I mentioned that every coin has three sides, the third side is the truth. The truth behind Pia is that many people have been killed so that she could become this, in the miser’s story he killed many people not just to survive but also for fun, making him the way he is. Since they both have made choice in their lives they have both decided their fates, the only difference between the Miser and Pia is the Miser decided to choose the path of evil instead of good.