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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. THE BACCHAE I bought this trio of plays mainly for The Bacchae , as Donna Tartt hinted this was an influence for her book [b:The Secret History|29044|The Secret History|Donna Tartt|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327733397s/29044.jpg|221359] (a story of classical Greek students who attempt to recreate some ancient rites in the Vermont woods). I began the story expecting scenes of wild revelry in the mountains. I had assumed that Dionysus represented laid back festivity and if he had a flaw it was debauchery to excess. But it turns out he also has a jealous side as vengeful as any Old Testament deity that comes out in this play MEDEA At first Medea seems a bit crazy, but after a little reading you can see she is plainly dealing with the outrage and hurt of being unceremoniously cast aside for a new wife, especially painful after all she’s done for her husband (it turns out there is a whole backstory told in [b:Jason and the Golden Fleece|764332|Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)|Apollonius of Rhodes|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1178147869s/764332.jpg|750408] where she played a key role in helping him steal the fleece/avenge his enemy, then emigrated from her homeland to be with him). Because she is so intense her revenge takes an epic form. At one point Medea tries to retreat from her tragic plan, but by then the wheels have been set in motion. The play is full of suspense as it builds to its dramatic conclusion. What is interesting is trying to interpret what the moral of the story might be. ALCESTIS This is the tale of a man allowed to cheat death provided he can find a substitute to take his place (a favor from Apollo who intervenes with The Fates). This person turns out to be his near saintly wife Alcestis but when Death comes a knockin’ the husband, Admetus, has a serious case of remorse. My favorite scene in the play is when Admetus tries to put the blame on his elderly father for Alcestis’s fate, sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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feeble when it comes to the sublime,
marvelously inventive over crime.
Oh Medea, you emerge as the force in this tumultuous collection and such a distinction is not lost on the gore-spattered pages where it take an epic hero to return a lost love from the dead to a shitbag husband (Alcestis) and then later a hallucination to inspire an incestual dismemberment (Bacchae). My reading of Medea is anchored by her being foreign-born, a stranger whose displacement is opened wide by her jackass husband and his efforts at social elevation through snagging a new bride of royal (and white) stock. There is something to be said for the original Lady Vengeance. Her vision and pluck are to be respected even if we cower and squirm before her monstrous deeds. She maintains a grace evn in the darkest light. ( )