The secret history by Donna Tartt
Nietzsche’s philosophy has made for itself a unique cornerstone in the sense that it is not involved with pedantic aspects of ethics branches of epistemology. This seminal German thinker moves swiftly along majority of philosophical schools of thought. In his exploration of the classical elements in literature, as found in the ancient Hellenic society, is manifested beautifully in the Birth Tragedy. The longstanding debate between the subjectivity and the objectivity of art is addressed to critically by Nietzsche in the book.
His basic idea that he propagates in Birth of Tragedy includes the reality with the forms and the same without the forms, and the comparison therein. Known as the Apollonian and the Dionysian, …show more content…
Nietzsche assigns the terms ‘Apollonian’ and ‘Dionysian’ to these two primal worldviews of Greek tragedy. The essay is going to make a relative study between the Apollonian and the Dionysian with reference to modern literature. To be able to make the comparison, we have chosen ‘Donna Tartt’s, The Secret History,’ one of the originative modern fictions from the fatalistic literary works. The attempts to construct one on the basis of his scattered remarks, poetry and even the myths would be difficult if not an impossible mission. It would above all be contrary to the intention of his thought leading to distortion of his …show more content…
Greek tragedy attained sublimity when the two art forms merged with one another to form a continuum. The fluidity of the Dionysian elements seek inanity through the Apollonian directness. It was a matter of great curiosity for Nietzsche that such contrasting ideologies should ever be able to define tragedy (Pfeffer, p.32)
The poetic genre that is characterized by reasoning that can actually strike and reach a level of elevated intensity is what makes the Greek tragedy a culmination of both the Apollonian and the Dionysian. The expansive verticality of the blending highlights Nietzsche’s exemplary vision of thought and his capacity to induct precision qualities into the philosophy of literature. His uniqueness interpretation of art and tragedy is not based on the conventional techniques.
In Birth Tragedy, he develops a style which is not mechanical in closure and highly sporadic in terms of articulating the individualism notions which is so distinctive of Nietzsche (Ansell-Pearson, p. 58). The Dionysian break down of form is totally not associated with the fictional content of human existence. He establishes a linkage between organic fiction and plurality of human nature. He however does not try to draw any kind of imposed distinction between the two
Nietzsche’s philosophy has made for itself a unique cornerstone in the sense that it is not involved with pedantic aspects of ethics branches of epistemology. This seminal German thinker moves swiftly along majority of philosophical schools of thought. In his exploration of the classical elements in literature, as found in the ancient Hellenic society, is manifested beautifully in the Birth Tragedy. The longstanding debate between the subjectivity and the objectivity of art is addressed to critically by Nietzsche in the book.
His basic idea that he propagates in Birth of Tragedy includes the reality with the forms and the same without the forms, and the comparison therein. Known as the Apollonian and the Dionysian, …show more content…
Nietzsche assigns the terms ‘Apollonian’ and ‘Dionysian’ to these two primal worldviews of Greek tragedy. The essay is going to make a relative study between the Apollonian and the Dionysian with reference to modern literature. To be able to make the comparison, we have chosen ‘Donna Tartt’s, The Secret History,’ one of the originative modern fictions from the fatalistic literary works. The attempts to construct one on the basis of his scattered remarks, poetry and even the myths would be difficult if not an impossible mission. It would above all be contrary to the intention of his thought leading to distortion of his …show more content…
Greek tragedy attained sublimity when the two art forms merged with one another to form a continuum. The fluidity of the Dionysian elements seek inanity through the Apollonian directness. It was a matter of great curiosity for Nietzsche that such contrasting ideologies should ever be able to define tragedy (Pfeffer, p.32)
The poetic genre that is characterized by reasoning that can actually strike and reach a level of elevated intensity is what makes the Greek tragedy a culmination of both the Apollonian and the Dionysian. The expansive verticality of the blending highlights Nietzsche’s exemplary vision of thought and his capacity to induct precision qualities into the philosophy of literature. His uniqueness interpretation of art and tragedy is not based on the conventional techniques.
In Birth Tragedy, he develops a style which is not mechanical in closure and highly sporadic in terms of articulating the individualism notions which is so distinctive of Nietzsche (Ansell-Pearson, p. 58). The Dionysian break down of form is totally not associated with the fictional content of human existence. He establishes a linkage between organic fiction and plurality of human nature. He however does not try to draw any kind of imposed distinction between the two