Chapter- 21 Marked for Greatness
Characters are marked by having disabilities or scars that set them apart from others around them. Their physical marks are used as symbols or metaphors in stories to symbolize that they are different from others and that each scar or deformity has a deeper story behind it. Every mark and the story behind it is a metaphor for life and how life leaves its marks and damages people. Scars or disabilities having deeper meanings than what appears on the surface.
Examples of Literature- Quasimodo in Hunchback of Notre Dame, Shakespeare, Frankenstein, Oedipus from Oedipus Rex, Morphology of the Folktale, Harry Potter, Song of Solomon, Beloved, The Waste Land
Harry Potter is famously known to have a scar across his forehead. He is not well known because of the scar on his head but because of how he received his scar. He was the only person to ever live after being attacked by Lord Voldomort as a baby. The scar was formed after the attack, a symbol to constantly remind others that Harry Potter was the boy who lived. Harry Potter was different from everyone else because he had survived Voldemort and his scar was the symbol that represented him surviving.
