{"id":4434,"date":"2016-07-14T16:52:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T11:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4434"},"modified":"2016-07-14T16:52:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T11:22:40","slug":"dwight-schrute-the-office-favourite-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4434","title":{"rendered":"Why The Office\u2019s Dwight Schrute is Our Favourite Fool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\n\nostalgia is truly one of the great human weaknesses, second only to the neck.\u201d <\/span>\n<\/span>~ Dwight Schrute <\/span>\n\nI discovered Dwight Schrute, the highest-ranking salesman of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company\u2019s Scranton branch in Greg Daniels\u2019 <\/span>The Office<\/span><\/i> at a time when I didn\u2019t have much exposure to American sitcoms. Adapted from the eponymous British sitcom, the show\u2019s reputation has managed to transcend the distractions of Netflix\u2019s breathless offerings, lending it a cult following that it enjoys even today. The crowd favourites are almost always the romantic flawlessness of Jim and Pam<\/a> or the idiosyncrasies of Michael Scott<\/a>. But for me, Rainn Wilson\u2019s provocative portrayal of dorky megalomaniac, Dwight Kurt Schrute III remains the most sharp-witted portrayal of a socially awkward anti-hero that I\u2019ve seen. <\/span>\n\nDwight\u2019s dorky glasses, mustard yellow shirt and borderline sociopathic personality traits \u2014 he hides weapons in the office and owns a wig to imitate each of his coworkers \u2014 only bolstered the <\/span>The Office\u2019s<\/span><\/i> enduring popularity. As a Reddit <\/span>thread<\/span><\/a> points out, \u201cEven though Michael found love and acceptance with Holly, he had to leave the people of Dunder Mifflin and the job he loved so much. Jim married his soulmate<\/a> and even landed his dream job eventually. But he had to leave the job that he had grown so fond of. While Dwight never had to compromise for what he wanted.\u201d Imagining <\/span>The Office<\/span><\/i> without Dwight is near impossible: If Michael was the evil, albeit bumbling scientist who conjured up wildly amusing experiments, Dwight was his loyal, almost equally bumbling sidekick without whom none of those experiments would ever see the light of day.<\/span>\n\nA polar opposite of Michael\u2019s tryhard cool boss, Dwight\u2019s intense respect for authority and paranoia over being viewed as an alpha male make him the show\u2019s most intense entity. Growing up on his family’s beet farm, he has limited social skills<\/a> apart from beets, bears, and Battlestar Galactica. Passionate about martial arts and hunting, he is inherently naive and ends up being the victim of many of Jim\u2019s pranks.<\/span>\n\n

While he maintains that Pam married his \u201cworst enemy\u201d, Pam and Dwight remain an endearing example of #BFFGoals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nIn many ways, Dwight before the show\u2019s third season, is a lot like the disgruntled PT Sirs of our childhood<\/a>: stern and rigid to the point where they become caricatures of themselves. Which is why even Dwight\u2019s love life suffers the brunt of his stubborn nature. After all, how does one wander the treacherous and emotional routes of romance<\/a> when he\u2019s spent the majority of his life around farm animals rather than actual humans?<\/span>\n\nAnd yet he begins to learn and unlearn his own emotional capability when he begins a tumultuous affair with a coworker, Angela Martin, that was followed by his subsequent feud with office tool, Andy Bernard and an eventual camaraderie. It\u2019s this strange love triangle that exposes a softer side to his personality. In fact, the Jim-Pam-Dwight dynamic is also crucial in revealing the most vulnerable aspect of Dwight\u2019s personality: Despite all the bravado, all he really craves is acceptance and love. Through the nine seasons of the show, while he maintains that Pam married his \u201cworst enemy\u201d, <\/span>Pam and Dwight<\/span><\/a> remain an endearing example of #BFFGoals. <\/span>\n\nIn a <\/span>scene<\/span><\/a> where Pam is weeping over her unrequited feelings for Jim, Dwight instinctively adopts a tone akin to a protective elder brother asking, \u201cWho did this to you? Where is he?\u201d, which is telling of the empathy that Dwight is capable of. In another, he deliberately lets Pam believe she\u2019s saved the building from his atrocities. The wry smile that comes over Dwight\u2019s face as he watches Jim and Pam embrace happily is further proof that he probably understood Pam\u2019s deep-seated insecurities over her career even better than Jim at times. <\/span>\n\nIt\u2019s also worth noting that Dwight has one of the most compelling backstories of any character on the show. And if they\u2019ve done spinoffs for Carrie Bradshaw and Sheldon Cooper, imagine the possibilities of a spinoff on \u201cYoung Dwight Schrute\u201d. Who wouldn\u2019t want to witness the birth of Mrs Schrute\u2019s 13.5-pound baby boy who rendered his mother incapable of walking for three months or following adolescent Dwight and cousin Mose raise hell on Schrute farms?<\/span>\n\nFourteen years since the first episode of <\/span>The Office <\/span><\/i>aired, Michael Scott\u2019s catchphrases are now part of the pop culture lexicon and Jim and Pam gave us all kinds of #CoupleGoals. Meanwhile, all Dwight trained his gaze on was rising from Assistant <\/span>to the<\/span> Regional Manager to Regional Manager of Dunder Mifflin, Scranton, a goal he accomplishes in the show\u2019s last season. And yet he stands out. For it’s his growth as an individual, from the pilot to the finale that makes Dwight Kurt Schrute the most lovable anti-hero of our generation.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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