The Apollonian and Dionysian man complete each other in the sense that these two
terms create our society. The Apollonian man was given its name from Apollo, the sun-
god. He represents light, clarity, and form. The Dionysian man was given its name from
the Greek god Dionysus. As the wine-god, he represents drunkenness and ecstasy. The
Dionysian was the primal aspect of reality, as well as raw nature, life and death, pleasure
and pain, desire, passion, sex, and aggression. It is the source of primal instincts. "The
Dionysian with its primal pleasure-experienced even in pain- is the common womb of
music and tragic myth...the Apolline is the realm of dreams and ideal forms."("The Birth of
Tragedy" Nietzsche, 1871) The Apollonian is the humanized aspect of reality, civilization,
harmony, and balance. It follows order, form, status, peace, moderation, permanence,
symbolism, language, and reason. In modern psychological terms it is the Ego and
Superego. The complexities of the Dionysian person verses the Apollonian person will be
explored using Robert Johnson's Ecstasy.
The Dionysian name emphazing the irrational element of frenzy was found in the
rites of Dionysus. This book explores the nature of ecstasy through the myth of Dionysus.
In ancient Greece, Dionysus was the god of wine and ecstasy. "The myth of Dionysus is a
picture of the forces, behaviors, and instincts that shape our inner world. He is a complex
figure who symbolizes the irrational world of our senses as it interacts with the rational
world of rules and limitations."(Johnson, 11)
Zeus, in disguise, traveled on earth and came upon the city of Thebes. He fell
hopelessly in love with Semele, the daughter of King Cadmus. She became pregnant and
wanted to look into the eyes of her lover. She asked Zeus to grant her a boon. He made
an oath with the River of Styx. This oath exclaimed she could have anything. She asked to
see the god of the thunderbolt in his true splendor. She persisted and sadly he kept his
word. This meant her death. She was immediately incinerated. Only her womb, wrapped
in ivy, escaped the flame. Zeus was furious, therefore he cut an incision in his thigh, and
tucked the child into it. The baby continued to gr...
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The Birth of Tragedy)
“The Apollonian tendency is associated with the instinct for form, beauty, moderation, and
symmetry. It is the basis of all analytic distinctions.”(Nitezsche The Birth of Tragedy)
The Apollonian and Dionysian are two terms that consummate each other in the sense that they
structure our society. The Apollonian is the humanized aspect of reality, civilization, harmony, and
balance. It follows order, form, status, peace, moderation, symbolism, and reason. The Dionysian was
the primal aspect of reality, as well as nature, life and death, desire, passion, sex, and aggression.
Robert Johnson’s Ecstasy explored the nature of ecstasy throught the ancient Greek myths of Dionysus
and Apollo. Ecstasy was once considered a favor of the gods, a divine gift that could lift mortals out of
ordinary reality and into a higher world. The myth of Dionysus and the rise and fall of his cult, offer the
best elucidation of our loss of ecstatic experience. He is a complex figure who symbolizes the irrational
world of our senses as it interacts with the rational world of rules and limitations.
...t is also important to notice that every character seems to have wide eyes and dark circles drawn under their eyes. This is perhaps one of the most important aspects because the eyes show the underlying theme of complete inebriation. This in turn, proves the impact that Dionysus had on his followers as well as those who he conquered. Wine brought great power to its creator, and made a lasting impact on history. With these devices of communication, we are able to see that the follower wanted to capture Dionysus’s legacy by creating a sarcophagus of remembrance in his honor.
power than many men do. For instance she is able to convince Zeus, ruler of
Christ resembles Dionysus in many ways. Is it possible that Christ is simply an extension of the Dionysian myth? Though the concepts of wine and faith unite the two, the idea of revenge compared to self-sacrifice separates the two deities. Dionysus fits the Greek understanding of vengeful and selfish God that bear more anthropomorphic traits than Godly traits. Christ, however, transcends human desires for revenge and acts in self-sacrifice. This is the key separation between them.
In the passage of the Narrative of Fredrick Douglass, the author masterfully conveys two complimentary tones of liberation and fear. The tones transition by the use of diction and detail. The passage is written entirely in first person, since we are witnessing the struggles of Fredrick Douglass through his eyes. Through his diction, we are able to feel the triumph that comes with freedom along with the hardships. Similarly, detail brings a picturesque view of his adversities. Since the point of view is first person, the reader is able to be a part of the Douglass’ struggles with his new freedom. With diction, detail, and point of view, the reader is able to get a rare glimpse into the past of Fredrick Douglass.Fredrick Douglass’ diction is powerful as he describes his life as a slave and with his new freedom. Fredrick Douglass calls being enslaved an act of “wretchedness,” yet he was able to remain “firm” and eventually left the “chains” of slavery. Fredrick Douglass expresses that being enslaved is a wretched act and that no man should ever deserve such treatment. Despite being a slave, he kept strong and eventually broke the chain of society. However, Fredrick Douglass experienced great “insecurity” and “loneliness” with his new freedom, and was upon a new “hunting-ground.” His new freedom brought other devastating factors, being a new state without any friends, which caused his loneliness. In this new state, he grew insecure for he was in a new danger zone where at any time his freedom could be rejected. With new freedom come new obstacles, which are described in the diction of Fredrick Douglass.
the texts stem from the reasons they are the same; why certain people are chosen,
Imagine being ripped apart from your mother as a child. Imagine watching family and friends receiving the stinging blow of a whip. Imagine religious men telling you that this is the will of god as they work you as close to death as they can. While difficult to imagine, this occurred to some of those who were enslaved in the early United States of America. One of the most heart wrenching of these accounts comes from a man born as a slave, Frederick Douglass. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an example of how some early Americans dehumanized slaves and how Fredrick Douglass’ viewed this atrocity. Despite this, Douglass found mental and physical means to fight this treatment.
Zeus exemplifies the possession of sound mind with proper reasoning whilst in love with Europa. The story is that Zeus abducts Europa in
America in the mid to early nineteenth century saw the torture of many African Americans in slavery. Plantation owners did not care whether they were young or old, girl or boy, to them all slaves were there to work. One slave in particular, Frederick Douglass, documented his journey through slavery in his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Through the use of various rhetorical devices and strategies, Douglass conveys the dehumanizing and corrupting effect of slavery, in order to show the overall need for American abolition. His use of devices such as parallelism, asyndeton, simile, antithesis, juxtaposition and use of irony, not only establish ethos but also show the negative effects of slavery on slaves, masters and
They had similar beliefs, but also immeasurable differences. It was composed of many meaningful gods and goddesses that all played a part in the everyday life of the average Roman and Greek person of that time.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, brings to light many of the social injustices that colored men, women, and children all were forced to endure throughout the nineteenth century under Southern slavery laws. Douglass's life-story is presented in a way that creates a compelling argument against the justification of slavery. His argument is reinforced though a variety of anecdotes, many of which detailed strikingly bloody, horrific scenes and inhumane cruelty on the part of the slaveholders. Yet, while Douglas’s narrative describes in vivid detail his experiences of life as a slave, what Douglass intends for his readers to grasp after reading his narrative is something much more profound. Aside from all the physical burdens of slavery that he faced on a daily basis, it was the psychological effects that caused him the greatest amount of detriment during his twenty-year enslavement. In the same regard, Douglass is able to profess that it was not only the slaves who incurred the damaging effects of slavery, but also the slaveholders. Slavery, in essence, is a destructive force that collectively corrupts the minds of slaveholders and weakens slaves’ intellects.
Growing up in a very accepting and forward home, I always found myself to be free of most bias. Having been the target of some racial prejudice in the past, I always told myself that I would make sure nobody else had to feel the same way. While this may be a great way to think, it really only covers the fact that you will not have any explicit bias. What I have realized during the course of this class is that implicit bias often has a much stronger effect on us than we might think, and even the most conscious people can be affected.
Zeus was not always the gray haired muscular man that he is seen as today. The first conception of the sky god did not have any form at all. The sky god was created by nomadic hunters in the Russian steppes, a treeless expanse above the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains (Stone, 8). Each tribe had a different name for him including Dyaus, Dies, Dios, Deus, and Deu Pater. Although the names changed they all referred to the brightness of the sky. The name Zeus was not used until the migration to Greece (Stone, 8). These proto-Greeks are believed to have migrated and taken over this land around 1700 B.C. (Stone, 10). The people already living there did not put up much of a fight. These natives worshipped small clay and wooden figures which was there goddess, an earth mother whom they called Ge and later Gaia (Stone, 11). The Greeks could not believe that a god could be reduced to the form of a man. It was not long before they realized they used these figures to pray for rain (Stone, 12). The natives also told elaborate stories about their gods as well as the creation of the earth. The Greeks were very envious of these stories and wanted Zeus to have stories of his own. A...
Zeus filled with the paranoia that one of his sons would overthrow him and not knowing that Metis was pregnant with Athena, a daughter, ate Metis. Zeus was unaware that Athena continued to grow until he had a splitting headache which could only be relieved by Hephaestus striking Zeus in the head with an axe. This
And because of the influence of movies and media, it pressurizes people into subconsciously thinking that their date with that special someone should be extraordinary which usually ends up being rather expensive. While the same cannot be said about online dating as it is cost efficient and allows people to expand their horizons by not limiting themselves to the same circle of people. However, people are more likely to imagine their future with someone in traditional dating based on their personality, habits, and more, while the same cannot be said about online dating. But if done right, online dating can help a person meet other people in the real world who they have much in common with. With the help of technology, they can be living on the opposite sides of the world and still get to know each other well, giving them a chance to delay commitment until they are