A comparison between Tsu'tey and Quaritch

[neytirifanboy]

In terms of their general attitude, Quaritch and Tsu-tey are the same.

But in therms of character, I do not believe they are.

Quaritch is consumed by pride. I believe that he wants to show that he, and humans in general, are superior to the Na'vi. This is specifically demonstrated at the end when he chooses to fight Jake at the end even though the battle was lost and Jake even gave him an opportunity to walk away.

Tsu'tey on the other hand seems quite the opposite. When Jake becomes Toruk-Makto, Tsu-tey seems to accept Jke without any sort of jealousy. Even when Jake mates with Neytiri, he seems more upset by the fact that a Dreamwalker has mated with a Na'vi than by the fact that Jake has mated with his betrothed. At least that was my perception. And finally, when Neytiri defends Jake's unconscious body, he chooses not to fight. A man with pride would have attacked Neytiri.

Quaritch is more than anything else a manipulatior. He tries to manipulate everyone around him to do his bidding and make them depend on him. There are four main examples of this:

1) When doing the briefing to the new-arrivals, Quaritch stresses, and perhaps even over-exagerates, the dangers of Pandora while stating that he is the one who will keep them alive. He is making them depend on him through fear.
2) He convinces Jake to spy for him. This time using the using a mixture of false friendship and the promise of a reward.
3) He convinces Selfride to attack Hometree, although it is clear Selrfide is not convinced. He convinces Selfridge by promising a reward, i.e. an easy and painless victory.
4) When the Na'vi forces are massing, he uses belligrent langauge to convicne his comrades and colleagues that all out war is the only way for them to survive. In other words, again he uses fear to get his own way.

There is no real evidence that Tsu-tey is manipulative. In fact, Tsu-tey is very straight-forward. In fact, the Na'vi in general seem to be quite naive to the concepts of politics and maipulation, at least what we saw of them.