Claire Littleton.  Claire is another very interesting character.  She isn’t one of my particular favorites though, due to her whiney attitude.  It’s almost like she’s immature, and not ready for what’s been placed before her, but she’s forced to.  She claims in one episode that she’s “sick of everyone telling her what to do.”  And that can get annoying.  There are so many people out there, that are like Charlie, and just want to fix the problem, perhaps due to something in their own past, or they just feel the need to.  And although that is a great thing, I’m sure at times it can get annoying.  It almost demonstrates to that person, hey, you can’t do this by yourself, so take my help.  However, relating that to real life, I guess it is a bit true, girls do need guys in that aspect, nevertheless, Claire at time seems annoyed by it.

Overall though I would say that she is kind, caring, and usually considerate.  She’s not extremely brave, but it isn’t required of her.  She feels that need to raise her child due to the fact that she was told that she had to raise that child.  That brings up an interesting philosophical aspect of the show.  The fortune teller told her she had to raise the baby herself, and no one could do it for her, then only days later turns around and says that she should take the baby to the states for a couple that he trusts.  Just as stated in the show, did he know that the plane was going to crash?  I think so, most definitely.  But then the question arises, why does she have to raise the baby?  What is it about her that is special?  Sure there are other people that are probably more caring, but it has to be here.  That’s an interesting thought.

One thing, so far in the show anyway, that is for sure about Claire is that she has a fairly clean past, and she’s honest and open with people.  That’s a good trait to have, although it could sometimes be thought of as annoying I’m sure.  Sometimes Claire says exactly what is on her mind, without hesitation.  Wouldn’t it be great to just say exactly what is on your mind at any time?  That’s straying off topic a bit, but think about it.  Sometimes we have to act a certain way around people, just for our appearance or perception to other people.  It’s how the world turns.  Look at how Claire is though; she is one of those people that deep down, requires care.  She needs it so bad, but at the same time she feels the need to be independent.  There are people in the world designed for Claire that are meant to take care of people like her.  It’s just a matter of getting the person to understand that that’s what they require.  We see her independence shine in the same episode I mentioned in my previous post about Charlie, when Charlie wanted to deliver the baby.  She wanted Jack, but you have to wonder in the back of your mind if it had something to do with the fact that she thought that would symbolize Charlie taking caring of her.

I actually think that Claire is very similar to Charlie.  One way would be that they are both caring.  It’s almost like a chain.  Charlie takes care of Claire, Claire takes care of Aaron (The baby) Examining the overall situation on the island, characters fall into specific slots.  It’s almost like Locke takes a father type position with Claire, Charlie takes the husband role, and then of course there is her son.  Interesting name choice on Claire’s part.  Makes me wonder if there is some religious aspect to that.  Aaron, Moses’ older brother, and the name means “High Mountain,” or “Exalted.”  Very interesting.  I love also how the baby represented new life on the island.  It’s got an enormous religious undertone in my opinion.  Claire probably thinks her kid is going to be the antichrist.  You know if I remember right, and I could be mistaken, I think it was jokingly mentioned.  Maybe her care and nurturing for that kid would prevent that.  I know that’s an off the wall statement, but it’s an interesting thought.  That could be the reason the child was named Aaron.  Perhaps she wanted a name with a religious meaning.

Notice in the episode when Claire and Charlie go missing, and are gone for a while, when Claire comes back, she’s a totally different person.  She forgot exactly what happened.  The last thing she remembers was getting on the plane.  Her personality was changed a little after that.  Of course little things started coming back to her here and there, but I think she was a lot more cautious of Charlie.  How can we relate this to our life?  When we go through trials, it changes us permanently.  It teaches us.  In her case, she forgot everything, but it changed who she was as a person.  Her experience of amnesia taught her to be a lot more cautious.  Can you imagine waking up and someone telling you that?  That you crashed on a deserted island.  It tells us in life to expect anything, and know that anything can happen; no matter how crazy it is, even crashing on an island, surviving, and living there.