When I first started following berserk I admired and identified with griffith more than guts.
Looking at the story from Griffith's point of view we have a man born with at the lowest social class who looks at the life and power that the royalty and aristocrats have and makes it his goal to reach the highest level of royalty and get his own kingdom. He struggles against his own conscience to follow this dream. Taking the hawks with him on his way up but bearing a greater load than any of them. Guts comes along and Griffith risks his life many times to save him...sometimes betraying his own dream to do it. Then guts decides to leave him and shatters his confidence at the same time. Griffith shaken slips up and seeks comfort with the princess and is imprisoned and tortured. Maybe while he is being tortured at first he wonders if guts will rescue him the way he rescued guts so many times. Time passes and he feels more and more betrayed by guts along with the torture that takes his sanity.
A year later the hawks along with guts rescue him after he is close to death and has lost everything he valued in life and his chance to chase his dreams. Then he sees guts take the last thing he had left...the respect loyalty and admiration of the hawks and casca. Now he decides he is done with his life and has no reason to live anymore....then comes the eclipse and he is given the option to either A. Go back to where he was (on the verge of suicide) or to have all his ambitions and more by Sacrificing the hawks guts and caska. All of whom he was supposed to be willing to lose at any time during a war since they were his soldiers. Didn't they agree to risk losing their life by following me into this war in the first place? After everything I endured don't I deserve to have my dream? In the end its either me or them....didn't I say that anyone who stands in the way of my dream should be destroyed even if that person is my friend and that my friend should destroy me if I stand in the way of his dream? Yet still I shed tears when I chose to live...because I didn't want them to die.
I have not read every volume of the manga can someone fill me in on the evil things that Griffith has done since being reborn? I can't say he has done anything truly evil as a human as far as I know. (Excluding what was done as femto since that was Griffith as a god hand not a human.)
Looking at the story from Griffith's point of view we have a man born with at the lowest social class who looks at the life and power that the royalty and aristocrats have and makes it his goal to reach the highest level of royalty and get his own kingdom. He struggles against his own conscience to follow this dream. Taking the hawks with him on his way up but bearing a greater load than any of them. Guts comes along and Griffith risks his life many times to save him...sometimes betraying his own dream to do it. Then guts decides to leave him and shatters his confidence at the same time. Griffith shaken slips up and seeks comfort with the princess and is imprisoned and tortured. Maybe while he is being tortured at first he wonders if guts will rescue him the way he rescued guts so many times. Time passes and he feels more and more betrayed by guts along with the torture that takes his sanity.
A year later the hawks along with guts rescue him after he is close to death and has lost everything he valued in life and his chance to chase his dreams. Then he sees guts take the last thing he had left...the respect loyalty and admiration of the hawks and casca. Now he decides he is done with his life and has no reason to live anymore....then comes the eclipse and he is given the option to either A. Go back to where he was (on the verge of suicide) or to have all his ambitions and more by Sacrificing the hawks guts and caska. All of whom he was supposed to be willing to lose at any time during a war since they were his soldiers. Didn't they agree to risk losing their life by following me into this war in the first place? After everything I endured don't I deserve to have my dream? In the end its either me or them....didn't I say that anyone who stands in the way of my dream should be destroyed even if that person is my friend and that my friend should destroy me if I stand in the way of his dream? Yet still I shed tears when I chose to live...because I didn't want them to die.
I have not read every volume of the manga can someone fill me in on the evil things that Griffith has done since being reborn? I can't say he has done anything truly evil as a human as far as I know. (Excluding what was done as femto since that was Griffith as a god hand not a human.)