A Critical Analysis Of Some Of The Eagles’ Most Culturally Significant Literary Works, Part 2
The plot suffers in favor of an ongoing and relentless character study of the eponymous villain (“Woohoo, witchy woman / See how high she flies / Woohoo, witchy woman / She got the moon in her eye”).
Desperado
A hard-hitting gem of literary crime fiction, Desperado is the Eagles’ ode to the classic revenge story. Thematically grounded in the fanaticism associated with vigilante justice (“Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?”), the piece effectively develops a complex and multifaceted protagonist (“Oh, you’re a hard one / I know that you got your reasons”) and creates a stellar sense of intrigue by alluding to the dangers of his tireless quest for vengeance (“The things that are pleasin’ you / Can hurt you somehow”).
Eventual tragedy is foreshadowed by the protagonist’s inability to feel any satisfaction with the justice that he has already delivered prior to the opening scene (“Now it seems to me some fine things / Have been laid upon your table / But you only want the ones that you can’t get”) which is further accentuated by the evocative prose that sets the moody tone (“Don’t your feet get…
