Apollonian and Dionysian

the plays were performed for his honor and in vicinity of his temple. However, his worship, finds presence in other, more mysterious rituals called Dionysian Mysteries, which used intoxicants, dance, and music to free the mind from social constraints, liberating the individual to its natural state, and becoming a communion with the god. In a Dionysian analysis Calame claims that Dionysus “allows man to bring about in himself the transition between submission to civilized order and the liberation…

Reno further exemplifies this difference when Reno explains how the culture of the Zuni seem to be Apollonian of which subdues individuality. The absence of individualism is present in Martian culture but due to how Smith starts to learn the ways of humans, in Smith’s church, individual aspects of the people remain as Smith simply passes on Smith’s new…

ominous tone and contributes to the development of night as a symbolic representation of evil and cruelty. The use of these words make the night seem intimidating and frightening. As a contrast to the previously mentioned apollonian daytime, the night time is quite clearly dionysian; the night strongly reflects the id aspect of human nature. Finally, the narrator describes the gloom to be “angered by the approach of the sun.” The personification that the narrator gives to the gloom quite clearly…

Speaking from a personal perspective, being plagued with the wrong identity labels could lead me to commit acts of evil. Both the SPE and group identity formed in terrorism shows the effects of how having certain associations could mislead me to commit acts I would not have committed otherwise. Because of possible horrors that could result from flawed personal identification, it is essential that I remain conscious of what my identifications are. Furthermore, it is crucial that my beliefs…

fictitious chorus birthed tragedy, tragedy was not held to the expectation of true everyday life. However, he claimed that the world of tragic art was just as real to the devoted Greek as the gods of Olympus. Reason being, the fact that within this Dionysian chorus lives a being whose existence is bound in myth and religion, like the vital existence of the Greek gods. He goes on to argue that when in the presence of the chorus, the Greeks were able to feel the emotions being portrayed by it,…

Dionysian/Apollonian: The Greek characters, Apollo and Dionysus represent the dichotomy of human nature and the unending debate of societal repression versus individual liberation. In the Greek tragedy, The Bacchae, Dionysus is the archetypal personification of hedonism, licentiousness, and chaos. He is the god of the vine, the ultimate party deity whose main goal was drunken revelry and personal freedom. The complete opposite of Dionysus is Apollo, the sun-god, the bringer of light, order and…

successful, nominated for eight awards and winning three, including the Sierra Award for best family film. (Scott, 2003) This movie had both Apollonian or Dionysian characteristics. Apollonian because Stanley had to do what he was told since he was arrested. When to go to court, when to wake up, sleep, eat, and dig a hole every day. The film was also Dionysian because Stanley would finally think for himself and had his own identity at the camp. When he spontaneously stole the water truck to try…

Friedrich Nietzsche strongly opposes the Socratic way of thinking. Socrates wanted to eliminate all remnants of myth and tragedy in modern culture and replace it with an age of reason where the theoretical man has the most power. The theoretical man wishes to reveal all of the world’s secrets before him because he is following Socrates’ belief that “knowledge is virtue”. Nietzsche opposes this idea for two reasons: the elimination of myth and tragedy from the world will make us unfulfilled as a…

heirs and thus indignantly criticizes the customs that deprive him. Diction suggesting livestock—Edmund is “brand[ed …] with base” (I.ii.9-10)—creates a power dynamic in which civilized man brands an animalistic beast, paralleling Apollonian Gloucester lording over Dionysian Edmund. This relationship portrays Gloucester as oppressive and thus Edmund’s rejection of his treatment as revolutionary and worthy of sympathy. The “dull, stale, tired” (I.ii.3) diction characterizing legitimate children’s…

planning to kill Hamlet by poisoning him during the fencing match, it ends up everyone in that royalty family dying. Hamlet chose his actions for his father. His fate was decided when he found out that Claudius kill king Hamlet and married the queen. It was Claudius who is to be blamed for this tragedy because he wanted to take over as king. “Aristotle focuses his discussion on tragedy, which uses dramatic, rather than narrative, form, and deals with agents who are better than us ourselves.…