In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, several theories abound as to why Hamlet delays and altogether cancels his vengeance for his father's death. It is possible that he continues to fear that the ghost of his father is only a devilish villain who is wrongly leading him down a bloodthirsty path of revenge. Perhaps also it is regicide that he fears, and he wants to be sure of his uncle's guilt before he takes any action. Additionally, it could be Hamlet's Christian morality that causes the hesitation, for this religion teaches the principles of forgiveness and does not condone revenge. All of these factors contribute to Hamlet's hesitation, yet in their totality, they are not the essential causation for his unwillingness. The reason behind his inability to take action is that he is the embodiment of Friederich Nietsche's concept of the Dionysian man. Hamlet does not let passion rule his actions, reason and moderation rule supreme. His mind struggles to reach decisions, and he is very cautious about the serious task at hand. He is an intellectual aristocrat, a scholar, a thinker; he ponders weighty matters and is not disenchanted by the superficiality of life on earth. Hamlet dares to ask the questionWhy?? and will not accept the status quo. It is in this sense that he is the very essence of Dionysian.
Hamlet's initial hesitation for avenging his father's death is caused by his skepticism about the apparition of his father. He is plagued by his father's foul and most unnatural murder? and the royal bed becominga couch for luxury and damned incest?, yet his mind is weighed down from the grief of this revelation, his mother's overhasty marriage, and the appearance of this phantom. At first he is full of fire to avenge the murder of his father, but he quickly realizes the heavy charge of the duty of revenge given to him and says,The time is out of joint. O cursed spite / That ever I was born to set it right!? Hamlet is not a rash individual and naturally contemplates the effects of if he were to act.
Dionysian Music A song or melody that is to be considered Dionysian must embody some or all of five defined descriptions. ... "Don't Fear the Reaper," by Blue Oyster Cult, is a reasonably Dionysian musical piece. ... Its soft, warm, and blended sound gives it a unique quality for listening, and in turn, is Dionysian. ...
These two models of Deities created a philosophical literary concept that has been understood as the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy. ... Using Friedrich Nietzsche's influential drives from the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy ideals in comparison to Samuel Beckett's themes in his play Waiting for Godot will exhibit the important balance between these two Deities and exactly what it is they represent in narrative as well as the primordial balance in human behavior. ... It is important for his main characters go through a change from consisting in too much of an Apollonian and ...
Theses two forces can be defined as the Dionysian and Apollonian duality. ... Apollonian represents the art of sculpture while Dionysian represents the art of music. ... In the first stanza Blake writes about the Dionysian aspect of the duality. ... This stanza represents the Dionysian because the natural lamb has a life and a death. ... This poem is a good example of how a poet can create poetic tension by using the Dionysian/Apollonian dualities. ...
There is a great distinction in Apollonian music and Dionysian music. ... A Dionysian scale would bring more of a scattered spread out version of the same scale. ... Dionysian characteristics can be found in two of my favorite movies, Memento directed by Christopher Nolan and Mulholland Dr. by consistently Dionysian director David Lynch. ... These movies and their directors completely embody what Dionysian cultures and art is all about. ... Perhaps one person hears something described as Dionysian and finds it appealing. ...
This Dionysian complement was the spirit of music. ... Music, originally known to the Greeks through an Apollinian sense, eventually developed another, a Dionysian, counterpart. ... The Dionysian dimension allows the spectator to decenter the suffering that is his being. ... The lyrical poem is Dionysian in its revels that grew out of the excitement of music. ... In tragedy the Dionysian and Apollonian factors serve to define and to perpetuate the other. ...
Dionysian and Apollonian are his main point of view in this book as he thought them to be opposes of given principles of sobriety. ... He uses Apollonion and Dionysian principles to describe how their thinking determined their actions. ... He sees that for a man to achieve the highest state he has to consider life to the realisation of Dionysian ideal of overman.This means that an individual has to accept his own Dionysian nature and make the appropriate use of it. ... He views the Dionysian as natural with both the good and bad just like anyone else in the world. ... An overman should be cap...
Before the arrival of the Dionysian, Apollo ruled the Greeks. ... He refers to the non-Greek Dionysian as the Dionysian barbarian. ... This new Dionysian form of music was very different than the previous Apollonian form. ... Dionysian music, on the other hand, "excited awe and terror. ... Nietzsche then goes on to explain that while the Dionysian had its fault, so did the Apollonian. ...
Another aspect of Dionysus that is still present in our society today is the notion of the Dionysian Perspective. The goal of the Dionysian Perspective is to have unity, oneness, and harmony with the world, community, and oneself. ... The Dionysian Perspective in a way is reflected in our society as a whole as well as in our Constitution when it asks for the equality of all men. ... This is what I believe the Dionysian Perspective meant to the people of antiquity and what our society today ultimately strives for in order to make the world a better place. ...
I am compelled to make to-do lists and jot down schedules, however, the Dionysian part of my personality just doesn't feel like it. ... Want and feel rule my behavior and are both predominantly Dionysian concepts when they have little to do with anything other than one's own comfort. ...
