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Discussing The Rebirth Rite Of Present And Evolutionin The Tragedy Of Ancient Greece

Posted on:2012-11-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X P LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330335956755Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Harrison thought, and it seemed to have no relations between the art and ceremonies, but in the first they were connected with each others.To really understand it must contact on the other side. They were the similar impulse at first.That was to let believers go into the church, or the audience go into the theatre.This paper taked the views that Ancient Greek tragedy origins from the rite as the foothold. And taking Dionysus Worship as part of the special case analysis the collective emotional experience in rebirth ceremony, "death-life-rebirth" circular model and initiating in the tragedy of ritualistic factors. Than opened out the important significance of the culture behind rebirth ritual.Combined with the three great tragic dramatists of ancient Greece, in virtue of classical literature and religion and anthropology study of theories and methods, on the basis of the tragedy of the orthodox theory and classics information, contact with the social historical background, in restoring authentic history,with the school's parallel of interdisciplinary studies in comparative literature,researching and analysising in depth into the present and evolution of rite in the tragedy of ancient greece.From the understanding of Dionysus in Theogony, lead to Dionysus deep in people's heart in Olympus Gods, resulting in the particularity of. Dionysus. To interpret Dionysus'second borth on the status of myth and hold the worship and ritual in the festival.On the analysis it as a renewable ceremony and the birth of the tragedy, which led to further analysis of the ceremony factors of the tragedy, including collectivizational emotional experience and the core mode of life and death.There are opening remarks,conflict with central figures,bitterness,the watchman,elegy,and deity happening.Article focused on the analysis the present and evolution of the rebirth ceremony in the three great tragic dramatists of ancient Greece. Taking Agamemnon, the King Oedipus and Medea as masterpieces detailed analysis and explore their inner ceremony and recycled. Analysising the plot of killed in the tragedy of Clytemnestra,Olympus and Medea substantiate with contents. From the opening remarks of changes, opening on the screen pass completely to explain advocated, into separate speaker for the dignity of the soliloquy, the mysterious personage of speech and the change process is the old rites of the shadows dance.Then analysising rital element incarnated and overfulfilled in the structure of the tragic, and sophocles'tragedies breaked the nature of ceremonial character strictly on "the presence of god", on the contrary it well-defined in Euripedes'tragedies. On the other hand in content,focus on the birth of core patterns "life-dying-salvation"and "the birth, for death (scapegoats)-promotion of god" mode. the Oedipus king as an example to analysis derived scapegoat "and" dying "condition, and the deep meanings of regeneration in the water in Medea. Of course, the article expounds the relevant myth also for the carrier on the rebirth ceremony.
Keywords/Search Tags:rebirth ceremony, the Greece tragedy, "Life-Death-Renewable", the factor of rite
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