Proud Warrior Race Guy: Difference between revisions

* [[Cyrano De Bergerac]] presents [[Truth in Television]]: for centuries, the Gascons have had this reputation among the French, and at the [[The Cavalier Years]] they were [[Impoverished Patrician]]s that sought battle and bloodshed because his culture teaches that [[Martyrdom Culture|dying in battle is the greatest source of personal honor]] and [[Glory Seeker]]. In the play, all the cadets are Gascons, all of them are poor (except [[No True Scotsman|De Guiche]]) because they don't plan for the future (they are going to die young), and very "proud" in the usual sense ("psychotically violent"). This trope is ''deconstructed'' because the very traits that make the Gascons ''great warriors'' make them ''poor soldiers'': they don't approve of the use of spies or subterfuges in war, and they don’t want to learn such things like how to use a cannon because they prefer the sword. In literature, authors like [[Alexandre Dumas]] (''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'') and Cervantes (''[[Don Quixote]]'') have recognized Gascuña as home of great warriors… or if you wish, [[Heroic Sociopath]]s. This [httphttps://webcacheweb.googleusercontentarchive.comorg/web/20160412075249/search?q=cache:http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028418501/cu31924028418501_djvu.txt article in English (A cadet of Gascony)]. [http://infokrisis.blogia.com/2006/053001-cyrano-de-bergerac-y-la-tradicion-heroica-de-los-mosqueteros.php and this other in Spanish (Los mosqueteros como herederos de Esparta)]