Les fonctions de l’écrit intime dans la constitution du héros : Jackson Teller, volonté intime et destin tragique

• Main Author: Vanessa Loubet-Poëtte
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Groupe de Recherche Identités et Cultures 2017-09-01
• Series: TV Series
• Subjects: Sons of Anarchy; Sutter Kurt; diary; tragic; literature; mythology
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/tvseries/2175

Despite its ultraviolence and the fact that it is based on the everyday life of outlaws bikers, the TV show Sons of Anarchy (FX, 2008-2014) cites numerous references to literature (William Shakespeare, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Stephen King), mythology (Œdipus, Prometheus) and the Bible. Whether simple hints or insightful appropriations, these mentions blur the limits between a fictional cultural space and a real one in addition to become the opportunity for the creator Kurt Sutter to question the work of writing itself. Moreover, thanks to the diarists, a dead father and his living son, both intimate writers, Sons of Anarchy considers the acts of reading and writing as efficient means for its plot. But, these actions are more than ordinary narrative devices : they instil into the show a relevant gap that leads to assert an intimate will during the initiatory journey of Jax Teller – successively a confuse young man, a brilliant prince and a murderous king – and to rise a tragic might – the same that ties his irreconcilable conditions of son, husband, father and leader. This is how the diaries and the intimate writings fill in their discontinuity and secrecy to help the hero psychological and ontological personality, thanks to their main functions (dialogical, introspective, programmatic and narrative).