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- Title
Sulla Medea di Pasolini. L’unità del cosmo e la diversità di Medea.
- Authors
FABBRO, ELENA; PADUANO, GUIDO
- Abstract
The paper analyzes Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Medea (1969), starting from a comparison with Pasolini’s different drafts and with Euripides’ hypotext. The analysis highlights the fundamental opposition between two antithetical civilisations – one, from which Medea comes, archaic, ‘barbaric’, defined by sacredness and ritual; the other, to which Medea arrives, marked by rationality and the negation of the sacred. This duality deflagrates in Medea’s dreams, Pasolini’s true great innovation with respect to the monologues of Euripides’ tragedy: Pasolini’s Medea arrives at the project (which is also desire) of revenge through contact with the Sun, a figure to which Pasolini gives much more space as the fulcrum of the eternal circuit of death and rebirth, and who makes vengeance somewhat human, guiding Medea towards the re-appropriation of her own roots and of the archaic civilisation from which she had distanced herself.
- Subjects
PASOLINI, Pier Paolo, 1922-1975; REINCARNATION; RITES &; ceremonies; SACREDNESS; MONOLOGUE; PIERS; SENECA, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.; REVENGE
- Publication
Dioniso, 2024, Issue 14, p213
- ISSN
1824-0240
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4454/dioniso.v14.996