5 notes tagged "opposition"
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tempering of one by the other
… the only redemption for either of a pair of opposites is the tempering of one by the other. Faust is redeemed by the love of Gretchen;
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Senex and puer in Hillman
Senex is a style of life and thought characterized by a sense of time and history, a concern for order, a love of tradition, and a tendency toward
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two-dimensional man don quixote
Don Quixote (Cervantes) a man so enamored of the simple ways of two-dimensional man — medieval man — that he took on the finery of knighthood and
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the faustian transformation
Faust and Mephistopheles, a pair as opposite as black and white. The tension between them alerts us to the most important lesson in Faust: that all
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complex man in hamlet
Shakespeare defined complex man with unerring accuracy in Hamlet. a stage higher on the evolutionary scale represented by H., the worried, anxious,
#seriousman #suffering #existential #opposition #triplicity #fourfold