4/25/2023 0 Comments The expanse books avasarala![]() ![]() The fact that she can keep her emotions in check serves her well throughout the series, of course. So even though Chrisjen keeps her emotions in check, and rationally uses emotions to accomplish her own goals, she is not a Stoic. In order to be a good person and a good stoic, one must act virtuously. Real stoicism, though, is about more than controlling emotions. She works with them even though Naomi Nagata does not trust (or like) her. After being wounded during an attack by Jules-Pierre Mao and Sadavir Errinwright, Avasarala recuperates on board the Rocinante with Holden and his crew. She has worked with her enemies and people who distrust her to accomplish her goals. He knew how manipulative she could be, and told her that even though DeGraaf had a soft spot for her (since he was friends with her father), the friendship did not extend to him.Īvasarala has repeatedly been proven to be a person who can compartmentalize her emotions (which leads to the potential manipulation of others’ emotions). DeGraaf’s widower, upon seeing Avasarala at his home, acted very cold to her. Another “convenient” situation that she exploited was to go through DeGraaf’s office soon after his death. One could see that Chrisjen Avasarala was hurt by this, but she tries not to let it show.Īvasarala seems cold, but she assures her colleagues that she is saddened by her loss, even going so far as to blame herself for certain minor details that she missed. ![]() He tells her he “doesn’t want to play” with her anymore. Before this, in Avasarala’s last talk with DeGraff, he tells her of a story where she demonstrates her desire to win at all costs. However, this suicide is questionable because it appeared to have been staged. DeGraaf falls into a deep depression and it appears that he committed suicide in a later episode of season two. When DeGraaf’s superiors find out about this, they accuse him of revealing secret information, which leads to his banishment from Mars, a place that he considered a home and wanted to retire to. Avasarala manipulates her friend by lying to him in order to monitor certain Martian stealth ships. He had close ties to her father and has been to Avasarala’s family home on a number of occasions. One example of this can be seen in the first season of the show with her friend, Franklin DeGraaf, who is an ambassador to Mars and a personal friend of the Avasarala family. ![]() We even see instances where Chrisjen uses emotions (such as sentimentality) as weapons (or tools) to accomplish a particular goal. Indeed, she seems to view emotions as something to control. There are certain people she is close to, but to almost everyone else, she seems almost cold. I use the terms “may be” simply because Avasarala effectively hides her emotions behind a stoic exterior. Martian separatists killed her father, and her son was a Marine who was killed in the line of duty defending Earth from “Belter revolutionaries.” So we see how invested Avasarala may be. As devious and deceptive as her actions are, is Chrisjen Avasarala a good person?Ĭhrisjen Avasarala comes from an aristocratic family. In one of her very first scenes we see that Avasarala is not above torturing others to get what she wants. With a stroke of a pen or a whisper in an ear, she has destroyed many lives at a whim. And no character is as morally ambiguous and mysterious as the cool, calculating Chrisjen Avasarala (played exceptionally well by Shohreh Aghdashloo). The complexity of the characters and the moral ambiguity of the storylines on The Expanse create compelling programing. The Ethics of Avasarala By Gerald Browning
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