Short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving introduces one of the earliest anti-heroes in American literature. Ichabod Crane was his name and hero nor villain. He developed a complicated relation with his audience where he hated for his morally wrong actions and admired for his profession as a schoolmaster and member the choir. American television series
Lost is a suspenseful jaw-dropping science fictional drama that follows the surviving victims of a plane crash. Later introduced into season 2 Benjamin Linus is now the root of all commotion.
If there's one thing Ben Linus has mastered then it's manipulation. He has the effortless power to control the other characters as though they are mindless puppets without the slightest clue of his deceitful doings. He will exhaust every reliable source of energy to make sure his ways are to be accommodated as best as possible. No better than Ben Linus, Ichabod Crane too will doubtlessly exhaust every useful soul in Sleepy Hollow just to live a more comfortable life, without an ounce of sympathy towards any of his victims. For instance, Ichabod does not seek Katrina Van Tussel's Hancock in marriage because of her youthful beauty but because of her fathers fat wallet.
Ben Linus fears no human being on the island exemplified after killing his own biological father to join the "others". There is however one thing that instills true fear into his veins. Mentioned and his eyes suddenly widen and he becomes filled with this emotion called fear. Something his inferiors would tell you he's incapable of expressing. His weakness is know as "The Monster", "The Smoke Monster" or "Cerberus", a supernatural figure which possesses the power the flip the tables around on him. Guilty of having superstitions of the supernatural, Ichabod fears and honestly believes in the very existence of goblins and monsters. He is so gullible when it comes to mythes, legends, tales, and scary stories from the locals.
Ben Linus could care less about sticking to a plan if he feels at that very moment he'd feel more satisfied by being impulsive. For instance, on
Lost having been informed that the man thats partially at fault for his daughters death also possess the power to instantaneously take the lives of many innocent people. He complete undermines the plan and kills the man an consequently the other innocent lives. For Ichabod is everyday decision making in based on impulse and what best accommodates his desires at that moment and he can care less about the future consequences that are to follow his actions.
In today's popular culture, the supernatural has become acceptable and desirable. All forms of entertainment is base on the mysterious supernatural. A lot of time our fascination for the unknown is driven by the motive to escape our man made scientifically explained home to a place where your not in control. For instance, getting lost in a the television series Supernatural will do that for you. The series provides an opportunity for the viewers to be exposed to the best and worst of both worlds.
