It is, therefore, in the characters of Faramir, Boromir, and Gollum that Tolkien presents to us the three faces of Everyman. In Faramir we see the face of the saint (paradisal man), in Boromir we see the face of the repentant sinner (purgatorial man), and in Gollum we see the face of the unrepentant sinner, enslaved to his vice (infernal man). Putting it another way, we are being shown the saint, the sinner who is trying to be a saint, and the sinner who is trying to be a sinner. These three faces of man—along with the face of the man on the journey of life (homo viator), which we see in
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