Eurydice Research Paper

Olympias is definitely one of the better known ancient Macedonian women, however, her control was opposed, not only by men, but by another woman. Born Adea, then changing her name to Eurydice, Adea-Eurydice’s importance rested highly on her royal blood. She combined the lines of Perdiccas and Philip and achieved power through her royal marriage to Arrhidaeus, or Philip III. Adea-Eurydice’s mother, Cynane, was an Illyrian princess, who continued with Illyrian tradition and taught her daughter the arts of war. Cynane attempted to marry her daughter to Arrhidaeus but was murdered in an attempt to prevent this from happening. The Macedonian army was so enraged that Perdiccas was forced to carry through with the marriage, anyways. Unlike nearly any woman for the time, Adea-Eurydice was extremely knowledgeable in battle and in her ability to sway the Macedonian army to her side. The soldiers were loyal to the family of Philip and Alexander regardless, however, women could have easily inspired different reactions from the army. The Macedonian army was already beginning to lose favor with Alexander’s generals and Adea-Eurydice quickly began to take control over the army (Carney, 1987, p. 498).

When Orpheus is being done inside the novel, an actor plays his part: “And as though the singer had been waiting for this cue…he chose this moment to stagger grotesquely to the footlights, his arms and legs splayed out under his antique robe, and fall down in the middle of the property sheepfold” (201). In this case, the actor playing Orpheus can be seen as the actual Orpheus in the myth because he goes to do what he loves, acting, even though it is risky for him because it is assumed that he is sick with the plague. Although the actor does die from the plague, he still went to dangerous lengths to achieve his passion, like Orpheus actually does in the myth when he goes to retrieve Eurydice. In addition, the reader can now see that Orpheus and Eurydice represent all of the couples throughout the novel, and is able to see examples earlier in the novel of characters going against extreme conditions, and the possibility of death because of circumstances against their will, to be with their love. An example of this is when the town is first closed off, because citizens are not allowed to leave, only come in, and only one person does decide to enter: “At the height of the epidemic we saw only one case in which natural emotions overcame the fear of death in a particularly painful form…The two were old Dr. Castel and his wife...But this

Sarah Ruhl’s play, Eurydice, is a devastating story battling love, grief, life, and death. Although it is set during the 1950’s, the play manages to encompass the ancient Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus. The three most evident themes of this play are recurring death, fleeting happiness, and the power of love. The main conflict in this play is ultimately about the painful choice that comes with death; this is often caused by the King of the Underworld. One of the most impressive parts of this play is the ability to change the way the play is perceived through design.

If you met a man named Orpheus who had a girlfriend, would you assume her name was Eurydice? Many people would, because the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is from “many, many thousand years ago” and is still passed on today, verbally and through works of literature. In his 1959 film Black Orpheus, Marcel Camus interprets this well-known myth, making changes to the story to make it more dramatic and interesting. Black Orpheus is substantially different from the original myth because Orpheus has a girlfriend before meeting Eurydice, Hermes plays a different role, Orpheus kills Eurydice, Orpheus cannot bring Eurydice back from the underworld, and Orpheus’ death

The entire play comes to a tragic end. And with dramatic irony is clearly seen in the entire play. Oedipus killed his father and murdered his mother, but Oedipus and Jocasta did not find out until the end, Tieresias ' warnings and prophecy clearly portray the use of irony. Rhetorical questions are seen questioning himself or fate. What, born as mine were born?”

Orpheus was the Beethoven of the Greek world, everybody loved his music. Everywhere he went, people listened to his music and loved it. Eurydice was Orpheus’ number one stalker/fan. They fell in love but Eurydice died one day, from a snake bite. Orpheus’ mad love for Eurydice ended up sending him to Tartarus and all he had to do was to bring Eurydice out of the underworld without looking at her. However, he was filled with doubt and he turned to look at her, losing her forever.

This passage "fits" the novel because it helps add to the plot line. For instance, Orpheus was devoted after his wife's passing. Therefore, he was determined to go to the Underground world or also called the world of death, and try to convince the ruler of Hades (ruler of the dead) to bring his wife, Eurydice, back to life. With Orpheus is a mortal amongst the great gods who inherit musical talent, he sang his heart out to the Gods of the dead and stole the hearts of their evil souls. They eventually became hypnotized by his angel like voice and granted his wishes. Unfortunately, his wife banished through his eyes after the Gods strictly told him not to look back at his wife until they were above the ground of the Death world. The novels read,"Then he turned to her her. It was too soon... She had slipped back into the darkness. All he heard was one faint word,"farewell," (142). After this happened, Orpheus tried to go back to the second world, but they refused to let him entrance again because he was a mortal who've already passed through their world. The importance of this passage in the novel's message is that when you love someone so much, never let them go because one day they could vanish from your life

The skeleton character in the film Black Orpheus is Death, who personifies the immortal concept of death which eventually claims Eurydice before her time and kills her. This character is very important to this movie, which offered a modern day update of the myth (a legend or story used to explain things such as nature or aspects of gods) of Orpheus when this film was initially created in 1959 (No author, 1958), because he serves as the antagonist. An antagonist is an adversary. It is due to the pursuit and the machinations of the skeleton character that Eurydice even travels to Brazil. And, it is due to the skeleton character's relentless pursuit that Eurydice is eventually destroyed by Orpheus, although she compromises her safety by hanging from a power line in order to escape from Death.

In the play, “Oedipus Rex”, many ironies took place, as well as fate playing a huge part in the story. “Oedipus Rex” is a story about a man that tries to overcome adversity but cannot escape his prophecy. His parents took him to a hillside as an infant, sliced his Achilles tendons and left him there. A shepherd soon came to his rescue. “King and Queen of Thebes, gave their infant to a shepherd in with orders that he be left on the side of the mountainside to die” (Johnson 1205). As he grew older and much wiser, he went to see the Oracle of Delphi. The Oracle informed him that his destiny was to kill his father and marry his mother. The main ironies in the play are the killing of Oedipus’s biological father, the odd relationship with his mother, and the inability of Oedipus to avoid his fate.

The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is one that has been passed down through generations for thousands of years. Almost every generation has heard a rendition of how Orpheus and Eurydice fall in love with one another and are eventually parted by death. I say rendition because this myth is passed on by word of mouth, which in return causes the story to change depending on the story teller. This may also have a great deal to do with the different interpretation people form about the story. Black Orpheus, directed by Marcel Camus in 1959, is an interpretation or modern rendition of the Greek myth, Orpheus and Eurydice. Although this film does not adapt the literal meaning of the

Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus was a skillful musician who played the lyre. He was a follower of Apollo and loved his daughter, Eurydice. On their wedding day, a snake bit her and she died. Orpheus went to Hades to bring her back.

Black Orpheus like its original is a tale of love two people who meant for eachother, but in the end death takes one away from the other. A marble Greek bas relief explodes to reveal black men dancing the samba to drums in a favela. Eurydice arrives in Rio de Janeiro, and takes a trolley driven by Orfeu . He is engaged to Mira, but Orfeu is

Reversal is key to both plays since by the end of both plays the social conditions of both Oedipus and Nora have changed completely. It is interesting to note that unlike a Shakespearean drama in which the tragic hero always dies, neither Oedipus nor Nora die.

The myth of Eurydice is a sad story in which two lovers are separated by death. After his love dies, Orpheus journeys into the underworld to retrieve her, but instead loses her for good. Playwright Sarah Ruhl takes the myth of Eurydice and attempts to transform this sad tale into a more light-hearted story. However, despite humorous lines and actions throughout the play, the melancholy situation of the actual tale overwhelms any comicality present. Although meant to be funny, Sarah Ruhl's “Eurydice” can be seen as a modernized tragedy about two lovers who are separated forever by a twist of fate.

In this interpretation of the story, so much time has passed between her death and the time that Orpheus came to “save” her Euridice can “almost remember” her husband, but not quite. Death has become her no normal and all that came before it is nothing but a faint memory. At this point she would rather “go on feeling nothing,/ Emptiness and silence; this stagnant peace” than go back to feeling all the pain that the world inflicts on the living. Eurydice mentions that Orpheus “loves [her],/ Not as [she] is now,/ So chilled and minimal,” leaving the reader to question if Orpheus could love the person she has become, or only the person he once knew her to be. Perhaps Eurydice convinced him to look back at her on purpose, so she would not have to suffer the pain of finding out the true