Yes, and it's not bait either, also be warned there will obviously be a few manga spoilers in this and I don't know how to spoiler the text After reading through berserk finally I've come to the conclusion that Griffith is one of the most misunderstood characters in media, Griffith is a victim of fate and an individual with a powerful weakness, his defining character trait is a fear of losing his dream - or of despair, or even of his own weakness, and this is something he knows very well We learn that he'd defile his body just to approach his dream, but no one actually stops to wonder what would motivate someone to do this - he says it himself, that it replaces years of campaigning, campaigning he could lose We see him talk a lot about dreams, and how he can't respect someone who follows his dreams rather than their own, but a lot of this is just words, because his actions sing a different tune, his love for the band of the hawk is proven canonically, both with it being the sacrifice, and with his later attempted recruitment of Rickert, after which Griffith attempts to kill Rickert - to hide his weakness, a weakness he still has for the band of the hawk Something people don't seem to fully understand about Berserk is the ideas of god and fate, you see the whole point of Berserk is that Guts has the power to fight fate itself, basically the strength to struggle even in the face of hopelessness, this is the exact thing Griffith lacks, the source of his insecurity So when griffith is directly faced with this weakness he breaks, not because he is evil but because he is human, his body is completely broken and the one person he considered a peer - Guts - abandoned him, only to come back taking pity on his broken dream, from Griffiths perspective at least, Griffith trying to rape Caska at this point is just a human attempt to overcome his own weakness, because at this point Griffith is facing the one thing he can never face, that he admired Guts for being able to face This all culminates at the eclipse, an event the series states multiple times was fated to happen for millennia, an unavoidable outcome beyond the control or understanding of man, to that end Griffith and his ambition too is a victim of this fate, and this is something Griffith himself realizes for just a moment, when he tries to tell Guts not to touch his shoulder, and then it's too late, Griffith becomes a vessel of fate I would argue that up until this point, Griffith has not done anything inhuman or evil, attempting to rape Casca is only a human attempt to repair a fractured psyche after being tortured for a year and left with a broken body that will never heal, and anything after the eclipse, well, Griffith has lost his humanity and become a member of the godhand, a literal vessel of fate, therefore it is difficult to directly blame Griffith for anything that happens after the fact Because of how the story has progressed, I think the end result will actually be Guts forgiving Griffith, and together they defeat the embodiment of evil shown in the lost chapter I hope you enjoyed my spicy hot take