11/8/2023 0 Comments Thulsa doom stareOnly when we overcome those darker aspects of ourselves can we truly become spiritually mature. Conan’s victory over Thulsa/Id is a necessary step that every young man must undertake before he can become a fully functioning adult. Thulsa’s lust for wealth, women, followers and power can be seen as representative of our own deeper and darker urges. Thulsa himself is a half human, half snake being, an interesting parallel. Id is sometimes compared to the concept of the “reptilian brain”, a part of every man where his most primal instincts reside. It is my personal theory that Thulsa Doom represents a personification of the human Id. Just before he complains about the dead snake in the Tower he speak directly to a snake and says: It is almost as if he is identyfing more with the snake than with people. Thulsa has no compassion for his human followers. I doubt many parents would make their child jump to their death. Then as a cruel demonstration of his power over his followers he makes one of them jump to their death. When Conan gets captured Thulsa complains the most about his snake getting killed, not the guards in the Tower. Thulsa might be an excellent manipulator, but he doesn’t care about his followers in the slightest. King Osric couldn’t be brainwashed but his daughter and thousands of vulnerable followers could be. It is my belief that they have too much will-power to fall for his tricks. Apparently, Thulsa never hypnotised kings and lords. This could be seen as another evidence of Thulsa’s inhuman origin. Interestingly the ability to hypnotize prey is often considered to be a snake-like ability. His ability to hypnotize people works almost as well on a larger scale as it does against an individual person. Thulsa as cult leaderĭespite being an awful warrior Thulsa is a very skilled cult leader. Maybe he should have gone to a gladiatorial school to learn how to fight instead of relying on psychological tricks.Īt some point in his life Thulsa must have come to the realisation that his approach to acquiring wealth and power through robbery isn’t working and decided to reinvent himself and his band of thieving murderers as a religious cult. Unlike Conan Thulsa never takes opponents one on one, at least not in a warrior way. Perhaps he thought that steel weapons might compensate for his lack of personal skill. The fact that Thulsa is such a lousy fighter might be the very reason he wanted steel weapons. He is forced to rely on Rexor and Thorgrim to lead his troops through the battles. In every instance a fight occurs near him Thulsa either stays in the background until the fighting is over or flees when it’s down to only him. He avoids battle and flees from battle, preferring to let others do his fighting for him. This post will focus on the analysis of Thulsa Doom and his role in “Conan the Barbarian”.
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