Why would you kill a guy that was known to be investigating you? He says he waits a week to avoid suspicion but just how many people do you think he would investigate in a week? That was a HUGE mistake to kill Penbar especially when Penbar didn't even suspect him. For a genius, Light sure made some remedial mistakes.
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No matter how smart Light was he waz just arrogant. Reminds me of Walter White. Dude was a genius but his narcissism made him make some of the most stupidest mistakes.
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100%. Particularly noteworthy are the times Light knows something or other is a trap, but he walks into it anyway. The tennis game, for instance, he notes that L is testing him during the game, but he is still compelled by his arrogance to win.
Hubris: the original fatal flaw.
Seriously, there's your answer. Light wasn't interested in doing what was right so much as stroking his ego, pretending it was for a worthy cause just soothes it. He said it himself, he could use the Death Note, and no one would be the wiser, but he wants people to know he's out there. That's sheer narcissism, a classic psychopathic attribute. Supposedly a lot of serial killers are caught because of it. Death Note is a tragedy.
Okay... perhaps not in the classic sense of a character flaw being the protagonist's undoing.
If I remember Tsugumi Ohba said it was important that Light not be undone by any mistake he'd made himself - which he feels he accomplished. That sort of depends on if you agree with his interpretation, but outside of that, it has all the hallmarks of a tragedy. It's not about whether he's dumb or not, it's about a lack of impulse control.
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There's no such thing as the establishment. Everyone knows that!
Seriously, there's your answer. Light wasn't interested in doing what was right so much as stroking his ego, pretending it was for a worthy cause just soothes it. He said it himself, he could use the Death Note, and no one would be the wiser, but he wants people to know he's out there. That's sheer narcissism, a classic psychopathic attribute. Supposedly a lot of serial killers are caught because of it. Death Note is a tragedy.
Okay... perhaps not in the classic sense of a character flaw being the protagonist's undoing.
If I remember Tsugumi Ohba said it was important that Light not be undone by any mistake he'd made himself - which he feels he accomplished. That sort of depends on if you agree with his interpretation, but outside of that, it has all the hallmarks of a tragedy. It's not about whether he's dumb or not, it's about a lack of impulse control.