Categorias: Todos - art - journey - psychology - philosophy

por Riccardo Pisanu 5 anos atrás

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JOURNEY

The text explores the theme of journeys, both literal and metaphorical, through the lens of various disciplines and literary works. It touches upon the artistic travels of Paul Gauguin, whose experiences influenced his work, and the transformative journey of Lucius in "

JOURNEY

JOURNEY

Latin

Metamorphoses
The journey that changed also phisically the protagonist Lucius

Art History

Paul Gauguin
An artist influenced by all the journeys he did during his life.

Italian

Italo Svevo
A journey into a neurotic mind.

Philosophy

Sigmund Freud
The founder of psychoanalysis, the science which analyzes humans' mental process.

English

Ulysses
The mental journey of an ordinary man during an ordinary day in an ordinary city (Dublin).

EPIPHANY

She stood up in a sudden impulse of terror. Escape! She must escape! Frank would save her. He would give her life, perhaps love, too. But she wanted to live. Why should she be unhappy? She had a right of happiness.

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Interior monologue

I was thinking of so many things he didn’t know of Mulvey and Mr Stanhope and Hester and father and old captain Groves and the sailors playing all birds fly

The Ancient Mariner
ELEMENTS:

Unreal

- Color of the ice and the sun - Noiseless wind

Real

Position of the sun in the sky according to the hemisphere and the direction where the ship is sailing

INTERPRETATIONS:

Metaphor of the original sin

Allegory of life

Psychology of an old crazy man

The poem by Coleridge of an old man with “skinny hands and glittering eyes” and a wedding guest who “cannot choose but hear”.