Apollonian and Dionysian

While Hecuba’s instinctual, animalistic revenge and later transformation was of a Dionysian nature. In Hecuba, Euripides explores the human need for retribution, examining the effects of injustice on its victims and how society chooses to justify or crimilize violence. Through the state-sanctioned slaughter of the innocent Polyxena, Euripedes shows how the Apollonian values of rhetoric and reason have the power to justify cruel violence and coerce cowardice, mercilessness…

‘The notion of the sublime did not, however, explicitly engage Rothko states Anna Chave in her book Mark Rothko; subjects in abstraction (Chave, 1989, p. 17). Rothko distrusted high-flown approaches to his paintings and preferred to talk about his art work in his own terms of the emotions. Rothko was interested in the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, specifically the Birth of tragedy. Mark Rothko cites Nietzsche to provide a way to describe his own sense of modern tragedy as he felt that his…

Framing and Methodologies Crucial foundations exist in each theory that grant assumptions permitting conclusions to be drawn. Built upon this are methodologies that then are inherently influenced by a theory’s foundation. Configurational anthropology’s underlying assumption is that of cultural relativity, which has structured both the temporal and spatial alignment of the theory. Cultural relativity states that the beliefs and activities of a culture cannot be judged out of context. To ground…

Tender Buttons clearly showed the profound effect modern painting had on her writing. In these small prose poems, Stein meticulously puts images and phrases together, often in surprising ways—similar in manner to cubist painting. Her writing, characterized by its use of words for their associations and sounds rather than their meanings, received considerable interest from other artists and writers. In fact like an artist, she is throwing random colours to paint an object as it is. However, in…

uniting, loving family, and loving God or prefered faith as in Romeo and Juliet.“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,That I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.”(Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet) The improvement of apollonian qualities over dionysian ones in love are vital to humanity. To illustrate, humanity is starting to dilute. Love is not used for morality, but for the collective of society as a whole like in Brave New World. Soma and controlling of the masses using…

were reasonably comfortable with gender fluidity and variations of gender presentation. However, his influence was not limited to a small pool of men. Nietzsche describes “the very element which forms the essence of Dionysian music (and hence of music in general) . . . as un-Apollonian: namely, the emotional power of the tone, the uniform flow of the melos, and the utterly incomparable world of harmony” (Nietzsche 7). Whereas Apollo represents the orderly, rational, and intellectual, Dionysus…

In this essay, I will be arguing that the katabasis in Greek Mythology is more concerned with the journey than the destination. I argue that katabasis myths allowed the ancient Greeks to conceptualise death and the underworld, as well as understand themes relating to death more generally. Specifically, I will argue that the journey of the hero in the katabasis myth serves as a metaphorical journey in the audience’s exploration of such themes. Before defending my position, I will briefly refer to…

great works of the American musical theater’. His colleague Howard Taubman added, ‘it catches the essence of a moment in history with sentiment and radiance’ (n.p.). I would recommend this work of arts to others, because it was a mixture of Apollonian and Dionysian experience, as it captures my attention the whole time with its information that is related to historical and social…

(Hi, please do help me fix my expression and structure of the sentences, especially the one inside the bracket PS: Mine is terrible) (feel free to changes phases and delete :) be as harsh as you can! ) 'What an evil power love has in people 's lives! ' Discuss love and passion in Medea Medea is a play which consists the dark presentation of passion and love. Whether the love on matrimony, between friend or towards children, it always leads to despair and horror. Moreover, the gothic…

in their own. Joseph Conrad portrays Western civilization’s inability to embrace reality through the contrasts of the Mistress and the Intended in his novel Heart of Darkness. The Mistress and the Intended represent the dichotomy of the Dionysian and Apollonian. Being a part of the African society already casts the Mistress into a lesser,…