Orpheus Loss Of Fate

In the myth of Orpheus, adapted by an unknown author, a man named Orpheus with an extraordinary talent with the lyre loses his wife to a snake bit and tries to undermine the natural process by influencing the gods to try to let him have her back. Orpheus’s inability to accept his fate leads to his demise.

At the beginning of the story, Orpheus has no experience with loss or pain and has a great life. Orpheus is born in a rich country and is the son of Apollo and Calliope. Apollo gives him a lyre and teaches him how to play it. His ability far surpasses any mortal. Everyone is influenced by Orpheus’s music: “Neither man nor beast lived in his day that could not be swayed by the power of his melody.”(1) Orpheus is so talented with his lyre …show more content…
Hades gives Eurydice back with a condition. Orpheus breaks the condition and loses her again causing him to mourn a lot more. Dionysus and his followers get sick of him. Dionysus’ and his followers cannot take Orpheus mourning anymore: “Then in a frenzy of cruelty, with the drunken lust to cause blood to flow, they threw themselves upon Orpheus and tore him limb to limb, casting at last his head and blood stained lyre into the river.”(3) Orpheus’s second loss of Eurydice causes him to mourn even more, finally making Dionysus and his followers attack him full of rage. He is killed and his soul gets spirited to go to Elysium. In the end, Orpheus messing with his and his wife’s fate and manipulating the gods cause him fatal consequences

Orpheus is unable to yield to fate because of his extensive talent, which ultimately causes more pain and anguish then if he just accepted it. This relates to the present because everyone loses a loved one and not accepting it and going through the grieving process just delays the pain to a later point in your life. People should just go through the grieving process so they can move on and do not need to feel the pain and anguish later in their