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- Title
- Hanging in the balance: the lure of Nietzsche's Apollonian and Dionysiac impulses in Kate Chopin's The Awakening.
- Creator
- Salamin, Jessica., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis represents a study of Kate Chopin's groundbreaking novel, The Awakening. Further, it applies Nietzsche's principles of Dionysiac and Apollonian impulses to the literary analysis of the novel. I argue that the protagonist of the novel, Edna Pontellier, embarks on a quest to determine how she may live an authentic life - that is, a life whereby she is true to herself above all others. Ultimately, her search for self is overwhelmed by the imbalance of the Apollonian and Dionysiac...
Show moreThis thesis represents a study of Kate Chopin's groundbreaking novel, The Awakening. Further, it applies Nietzsche's principles of Dionysiac and Apollonian impulses to the literary analysis of the novel. I argue that the protagonist of the novel, Edna Pontellier, embarks on a quest to determine how she may live an authentic life - that is, a life whereby she is true to herself above all others. Ultimately, her search for self is overwhelmed by the imbalance of the Apollonian and Dionysiac impulses against which she struggles. Because Edna cannot successfully mediate this struggle, she reaches the conclusion that she may only attain a truth to her self if she finds that truth in death.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2009
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/216407
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Aesthetics, Self in literature, Women and literature, History
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Apollo, Dionysus, and three sets of brothers: Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy" as applied to O'Neill, Pinter, and Shepard.
- Creator
- Suhajcik, Sarah Sandefur., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
- Abstract/Description
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The mythological elements of the Apollonian and Dionysian in ancient tragedy as defined in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy may be applied to the modern family, specifically Jamie and Edmund in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, Lenny and Teddy in Pinter's The Homecoming, and Lee and Austin in Shepard's True West. The conflict between the modern brothers is representative of the struggle between and eventual "mimetic reciprocity" of Dionysus and Apollo; each brother of each set is...
Show moreThe mythological elements of the Apollonian and Dionysian in ancient tragedy as defined in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy may be applied to the modern family, specifically Jamie and Edmund in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, Lenny and Teddy in Pinter's The Homecoming, and Lee and Austin in Shepard's True West. The conflict between the modern brothers is representative of the struggle between and eventual "mimetic reciprocity" of Dionysus and Apollo; each brother of each set is perceived initially to be the polar opposite of his sibling, but as the action evolves his antithetical position dissolves and each becomes a mirror reflection of his brother. But these companion forces have the potential for destruction, and violence erupts when the Apollonian brothers struggle to maintain their individual identities against the stronger force of their Dionysian counterparts.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1991
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14747
- Subject Headings
- O'Neill, Eugene,--1888-1953--Long day's journey into night, Pinter, Harold,--1930---Homecoming, Shepard, Sam,--1943---True West, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,--1844-1900--Geburt der Tragödie
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The villainous spider and the Uebermensch: Nietzschean paradigms in Matthew Lewis's "The Monk".
- Creator
- Turner, Richard Scott., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
- Abstract/Description
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Matthew Lewis's The Monk portrays the catastrophic effects that sexual repression has on Ambrosio, a monk who is raised in a monastery. Lewis also demonstrates the freedom found in sexual fulfillment in the form of Matilda, the woman who seduces Ambrosio and leads him toward his final destruction. A Nietzschean critique of Christianity provides a connection between eighteenth century dissatisfaction with Roman Catholic doctrines and Nietzsche's aversion to the self-abnegation required to save...
Show moreMatthew Lewis's The Monk portrays the catastrophic effects that sexual repression has on Ambrosio, a monk who is raised in a monastery. Lewis also demonstrates the freedom found in sexual fulfillment in the form of Matilda, the woman who seduces Ambrosio and leads him toward his final destruction. A Nietzschean critique of Christianity provides a connection between eighteenth century dissatisfaction with Roman Catholic doctrines and Nietzsche's aversion to the self-abnegation required to save the soul from eternal perdition. Ambrosio is the Nietzschean paradigm of the hypocritical ascetic, who hides his vice beneath the monkish robes of piety. Matilda, on the other hand, is the Ubermensch that Nietzsche discusses in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, because she sheds religious constraints and becomes a sexual being capable of experiencing sexual pleasure without guilt.
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- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15661
- Subject Headings
- Lewis, MG--(Matthew George),--1775-1818--Monk, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,--1844-1900--Contributions in concept of the superman, Lewis, MG (Matthew George),--1775-1818--Criticism and interpretation
- Format
- Document (PDF)