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[patrice-bergerons]

Forgiveness--and lack thereof--as a core theme of the Terror.

Goodsir's last words to Silna are 'I'm sorry'. He kills himself with clinical precision in order to poison the entire mutineers' camp, save for Francis. Francis on the other hand would save Diggle and Hodgson from that fate (though not the others).

Francis says I forgive them all and I don't think it's because he is blind to his men's faults, but rather because he fell and it was Blanky's forgiveness, his refusal to condemn Francis for the loss of his leg, which gave him the strength to go sober. So he forgives his men--crucially with the exception of Hickey--because he is in no place to judge and because if he can do that, with their mutiny and cannibalism and desire to leave the sick behind, and if he can get them home, maybe, just maybe, he can extend the same forgiveness to himself. 'Do you include yourself in that forgiveness?' Hickey asks with startling clarity and Francis replies 'I won't know until the end.'

The Inuit forgive Francis for killing the Tuunbaq but not Silna. Or perhaps they don't forgive him but let him stay and forgive her but have her banished--does the distinction matter? Francis and James forgive one another but if they have a conversation about it, we are not privy to it--and of course, like everything else, it happens too late.

Through it all, the show asks one key question on this I think: do we forgive them for being the overreaching arm of the Empire in the flesh? They are each one of them products of their time, and yet each one of them his own person. We are shown their compassion and kindness, even at the end of all things, and their cruelty; their grisly ends and the destruction they wreak upon the land. Are we even in a position to forgive them? Was Francis? One thing we are not given are easy answers.

[halberdierminister]

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