Research Paper On Orpheus's Journey To The Underworld

Uncertainties from the past on an individual can create an impact that lasts longer than what seems to be reasonable and can resurface in life by a more powerful experience which triggers the memory. In the story A Few Notes for Orpheus, Gus feels disturbed by his own father’s inability to show that he cares, despite having a daughter himself. He further expresses his views when his daughter Cathy met him for the first time, where he showed obvious jealousy towards his father’s attitude towards his daughter. The events that happen in the story later reveals his cold attitude towards his daughter due to the lack of love he received from his father. This could be seen as ironic because he overlooks some of the key evidence which leads to his

This myth began when Orpheus rejected the advances of the Ciconian women. He did this because he had rejected the advances of all women because he was still in love with his late wife. He was distraught over the fact that he could not save her from the Underworld and therefore, swore off all women (Metamorphoses 10.82-86). Because of this, the Ciconian women found Orpheus performing one of his songs and decided to get their revenge. They first began killing the animals that had been enthralled by Orpheus’ song and then turned on Orpheus. They murdered him viciously and savagely, using stones and the earth to kill him (Metamorphoses 11.20-44). Orpheus then descended into the Underworld to join his late wife. Orpheus was mourned by a lot of beings, including the god Bacchus. He was angry that the Ciconian women had murdered Orpheus and transformed them into trees

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

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.

A passage in unit 3, pages 121- 160,was about a man named, Orpheus, who was the son of the Muses and a Thracian prince. His sad story begins happily when he waits for his bride to be, to marry him. But tragically his bride dies after being stung by a viper and he quickly gets on a boat, to go to the underground world to get his bride back. As it says," O Gods who rule the dark and silent world, To you all born of a woman needs must come. All lovely things at last go down to you. You are the debtor who is always paid. A little while we tarry up on earth. Then we are yours forever and forever. But I seek one who came to you too soon. The bud was plucked before the flower bloomed. I tried to bear my loss. I could not bear it. Love was too strong a god.

In Orpheus and Eurydice, the love between Orpheus and Eurydice let Orpheus have the courage to save Eurydice out from the Underworld. When Eurydice got poisoned from a snake and went to the Hades, Orpheus decide to “enter Hades itself and fetch her back to earth from there” (Gibson 32). It is the love from Eurydice give Orpheus the courage to save his wife out of the Underworld, and it is the love Orpheus had towards Eurydice so that he do not want to leave his wife in the Underworld alone. Furthermore, in the myth “Savitri and Stevana”, the love between Savitri and Satyavan give Savitri the courage to follow Yamraj. When the Yamraj took Satyavan' soul, “Savitri followed on foot. She followed miles and miles” (Jaffrey 185). Savitri determined action had finally convinced the Yamraj to give back her husband’s

Hades, also known as Aides and Aidoneus, was the son of Kronos and Rhea, and the youngest brother of Zeus and Poseidon. He was the ruler of the mythological subterranean region called the underworld, which was inhabited by the “shades” or spirits of the dead. It was also home to dethroned or exiled deities who had been overthrown by Zeus and his allies. Hades and his brothers, Zeus and Poseidon, dethroned Kronos and the other Titans and then divided up earth among the three of them. Zeus reined the sky, Poseidon the sea and Hades ruled the underworld. The name “Hades” has been synonymously used for both the god of the underworld and the underworld itself. It is necessary to distinguish between Hades the location and Hades the god of the Underworld, the god of the dead. Hades comes from a Greek root meaning "unseen," "hidden," or "unknown." In Egypt, the equivalent of Hades is Amenti which means "hidden place" or "place of the hidden god," ; and in the roots of the word hell, had a sense of "hiding" or "concealing." Unlike the Christian concept of heaven and hell, which have separate locations, the Greek underworld was home to the souls of the virtuous and the damned, the good and the bad. In Hades the souls were separated in different sections or realms of the underworld, but all of the realms were apart of the same subterranean location. Individuals’ conduct on earth was the defining factor in deciding which realm they would be sent to; much like the judging of the

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.

This is illustrated when she “happily [agrees] to become his (Orpheus’s) wife” (Pathways 532). This shows her recognition to the position of men as being superior to women in Greek culture. She is also easily enchanted by men and falls in love with Orpheus mainly because of the beautiful music he plays proving, that she is easily convinced. Finally, Eurydice proves to be an innocent and sweet young woman who dies and is taken to the underworld long before her time. Through these examples, it is clear that Eurydice, through her honoring of men, her ability to be convinced easily, and her innocence, is an example of an ideal woman during ancient Greek

Hades is the gloomy god of death. He rules over the underworld and everything under the ground, including the buried dead and everything that is buried with them. This included coins and other treasure.

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

Odysseus travels to the underworld, where he pours libations and performs sacrifices to attract the souls of the dead. The first soul to appear to Odysseus is Elpenor, who was a crewman who broke his neck by falling off a roof, begging Odysseus to go back and give him a proper burial. Odysseus then speaks to Tiresias, who tells him that Poseidon is punishing him for what he did to Polyphemus. Odysseus speaks with his mother, which touched him the most, he was sadden with grief of his mother’s death, and she says that she died from grief waiting for his return home. Odysseus speaks to many heroe’ like Achilles who asks about one of his family member, and how Ajax refused to speak with him. He meets talks with Agamemnon, who tells Odysseus

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

To Peter Davidson in “Eurydice in Darkness” a more depressing version of the myth told from Eurydice's point of view, he is described as a coward and a poor example of a man also blamed for Eurydice's death. In “ Eurydice” By Steve Kowit a more passionate and loving version of the myth also told from Eurydice's point of view Orpheus is described as a “boy” and victim to his own emotions. In the myth and both these poems he mourns for the rest of his life until his tragic death, In the myth and the poems it is clearly seen that the reason for his suffering is his lack of rationality and control of his emotions. Orpheus was a poet not a man and was led to his fate by his love and

Oedipus is a boy who was left on the mountains to die by his own parents, the King and Queen of Thebes, due to a tragic prophecy told by the Oracles of Delphi. The prophecy declares that the boy would be destined to murder his father, king Louis of Thebes and then incest with Louis’s wife, Jocasta, Oedipus mother. After being abandoned on the mountain by his wicked parents, a shepherd found this little child and takes him to the King and Queen. King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth decided that since they don't have a child of their own, it would