Overview & Assumptions[]
This article is an attempt to explore what it is the island itself is trying to do. In writing this article we are making a few assumptions:
- The island has goals of it's own
- The island is capable of taking actions to achieve those goals
- The island can take action on and off island
Means[]
The island has powers that it uses to achieve it's goals. These powers may include:
- Causing visions
- Causing illness
- Healing illness
- Not letting people kill themselves
- Hiding itself
- Attracting people to itself
- Defensive measures such as the monster
- People or organizations that support it
Goals[]
The island may have one or more goals.
To be left alone[]
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." Attributed to more than one Government official in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the term had to do with payments to the Barbary Pirates. In the case of the Island, it refers a living, peaceful entity that wants to be left alone with its inhabitants. To ensure success, it maintains a defense structure.
Specific actions[]
Michael[]
Here is a case where the island took very deliberate action and a proposed theory as to why: The island doesn't seem to have allowed Michael to kill himself (Meet Kevin Johnson). On the freighter Michael devises a way to stop the bomb from going off right away. What is the result of this action? Desmond, Sun and Aaron are able to get on the helicopter and thus escape. Once this has been accomplished Christian Shepard (aka Jacob, aka the island) tells Michael he is done. What is the purpose of this action? The island thinks it needs Desmond, Sun and/or Aaron for some purpose of it's own.
Chosen one[]
The island seems to have selected Widmore (?), Alpert, Ben, and now Locke as it's chosen one. Why these people, why change?
Illness[]
The island caused Ben to get sick because his time was over and punished Jack with appendicitis after he called the freighter.