Song of Lawino: Cultural Duality and Universality Song of Lawino by Okot p’Bitek centers on the main narrator Lawino’s plea towards her husband‚ Ocol‚ who shuns his old Acholi background for Westernization. Lawino implores Ocol not to abandon his heritage but rather accept both Acholi and Western cultures; as noted‚ cultural duality serves as the prime theme in Song of Lawino. Through the character of Lawino‚ p’Bitek conveys his message that Acholi and Western cultures could be fused in the era
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built around the notions such as rational and irrational or as Nietzsche states‚ Apollonian and Dionysian. Europe was entering a new intellectual phase of questioning logic and imagination. Controversial topics such as religion and science were now being targeted in the Apollonian and Dionysian theories. Sigmund Freud constructs his own myths on the topic of logic and imagination when referring to dreams. Philologist Friedrich Nietzsche and psychologist Sigmund Freud both analyzed the theory of the
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In Friedrich Nietzsche’s “The birth of Tragedy” he claims that “Every artist must appear as an ‘imitator’‚ either as the Apollonian dream artist or the Dionysian ecstatic artist‚ or finally as a dream and ecstatic artist in one.” According to Nietzsche Greek art was very superficial before Dionysus. In this original art the observer was not truly united with the art‚ unable to immerse himself. Apollo was present to protect man from suffering and provided them with a certain level comfort. Dionysus
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Cited: Crimes and Misdemeanors. Dir. Woody Allen. Perf. Martin Landau. MGM Distribution Company. 1989. Film. “Friederich Nietzsche Overview.”www.sparknotes.com.n.p.n.d.Web.16 Nov 2012. <http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/genealogyofmorals/section2.rhtml>. Voices of Wisdom 7e. Belmont: Cengage‚ 2010‚ 2007.pp. 64. Print
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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Pain and suffering are constant throughout life; misfortunes that we just have to learn to deal with. Situations when we have to keep our heads held high‚ stay confident and never give up. It is in these tough times that we must look at the bright side‚ focus on what we can gain out of the challenging position in which we find ourselves in. We have to stop in a world that never pauses. We have to freeze in an ever flowing waterfall
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in turn leading to increased conflict. In reviewing Nietzsche’s concept of Apollonian and Dionysian personalities‚ greater insight can be obtained accounting for our ever increasing antagonism toward one another. (Altshuler and Janaro 19). Nietzsche proposes two distinct personality profiles to provide a greater understanding of how human beings are motivated to react to different situations. The first personality profile he presents he terms Apollonian; someone defined by this profile is “dominated
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For Nietzsche‚ resentiment is a feeling of anger which comes from the distinction between the good and the bad people. The “good” and “bad” were only used to separate two groups of people and associated to no moral meaning. The “good” meant strong‚ active and happy. At the same time‚ the “bad” meant weak‚ passive and unhappy. The good people were those with higher social status. The bad people were with lower social status. Such a distinction had political value in differentiating the nobles from
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morals that are directly controversy to the other. He titles these two morals as the “slave morality” and the “noble morality.” In On the Genealogy of Morals‚ Nietzsche claims that when you have noble morality‚ slave morality quickly follows as a form of “ressentiment‚” his spelling of the word resentment. Therefore‚ according to Nietzsche‚ when there is a noble morality‚ which he describes as “The capacity for and duty of long drawn-out gratitude and revenge – both within the peer-group only –‚
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understanding‚ but also to the certain and immediate apprehension of the fact that the further development of art is bound up with the duality of the Apollonian and the Dionysian” (BOT‚ 11). While the two Greek principles are a means through which Nietzsche creates a specific aesthetic of art‚ in later books‚ specifically Beyond Good and Evil and On The Genealogy of Morals‚ these principles subtly involve themselves in Nietzsche’s discussion on the will. In the intersection of the Apollonian dream and
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Chapter 16: Soren Kierkegaard’s Repetition Brief Biography * Soren Kierkegaard was born on May 15‚ 1813 in Copenhagen‚ Denmark. * 7th child of a wealthy businessman. * His father had special philosophical interests which had great impact on him * He was also a bright student who learned to read Hebrew‚ Greek‚Latin‚German and French at the age of 17. * His philosophy‚ which he called existentialism‚ practically applied to an examined life as opposed to the works of Georg Wilhelm
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