John Locke and Judas Iscariot

Now that it's official, and we know that Locke isn't really Locke, let's take a break from time travel. I'm interested in some insights from Locke, Flocke, Ben, and Charles Widmore. First Locke. It impressed me how there seem to be parallels between John Locke and Judas Iscariot. Both were chosen by their Masters whom both later betrayed. Both hanged themselves or at least tried to, and both were possessed in a way. John Locke had Jacob's nemesis sort of in John Locke's mind, influencing him until Locke's death, when he made his own copy of Locke's body and thus in a sense possessed him. It was then that he killed Jacob, or rather used Ben to kill him. Likewise, although Satan influenced Judas to sin before the Last Supper, at the Last Supper "Satan entered into him" (John 13:27) and he betrayed Jesus to his enemies.

One definite difference between them is that Locke was hanged before "Satan" entered into him, Judas hanged himself afterwards. Maybe there's an insight here: Locke was strangled and hanged by Ben, who is also a kind of Satan figure* and then the smoke monster Nemesis was able to totally take him over. Perhaps before Judas' physical hanging, we could say there was a spiritual strangulation wherein he crossed a line and let the devil kill, him, making ti possible to take him over completely.


*compare these two statments: John 8:44b "When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." Ben: "I lied. It's what I do."