Please choose a quote from Dream Story write out the quote. Then interpret the quote and explain why you choose this passage.
“Nachtigall sighed softly. ‘Well, no t completely blindfolded, admittedly. Not so that I can’t see anything at all. That is, I can see things in the mirror through the black silk scarf tied over my eyes...’ And again he paused. ‘In a word,’ said Fridolin impatiently and little scornfully but felling strangely excited, ‘naked females.’ ‘Don’t call them females, Fridolin,’ replied Nachtigall in an offended tone, ‘you’ve never seen such women.’ Fridolin cleared his throath lightly. ‘And how high is the entrance fee?’” P35
This quote is from the 35th page of the 4th chapter. This is when Fridolin meets Nachtigall in the coffee shop and they talk about how their lives have gone on since the last time they met. As they are done about telling about their lives, Nachtigall tell that is giving his serves to a secret private group. He further explains that there is danger there beautiful women at this particular place. As soon as Fridolin hears about this he wanted to know how he could get in. later Fridolin finds that he has to wear a mask and costume to enter with a password.
The reason I choose this passage from the book “Dream Story” is because this story’s theme of irrational behavior is similar almost all of the works we have read or saw in our previous classes. Another reason that I have chosen this part of the book is because that is what we are studying. What I mean by this is Nihilism. As we know that Nihilism according to Friedrich Nietzsche is the movement away for the traditional way of live and traditional morals and values to the irrational way thought. He also said that that is what we need to like a full and healthy life.
In summary, 3 out of 4 works that we have read or watched have showed the theme of irrational. The first is “Siddhartha”. The fact that Siddhartha went from a person staying away from women to have pleasure with Kamala. In the second major work that we watched “The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari” in that I thought that I did not see much of the irrational behavior except the relationship with Francis and Jane. So I will not consider that irrational. The third work that we watched “The Blue Angle” clearly shows the irrational behavior of Rath with Lola. In the book we read for this week “Dream Story” also shows the same theme.
Having said this I want to point out that the first part of Friedrich Nietzsche’s theory I get and that is that we are bound to take the irrational path. Although I don’t get how this path could be a healthy and let a person live a full life, because all the victim either left that path in the case of Siddhartha, or went to a worse situation in the case of Roth, or stayed the same the same in the case of Fridolin.
Well, they kind of did live a healthy life after they both told each other the dreams they had and their fantasies they had with other people, but once again they didn't state it, but it can sort of be understood that they both were going to move on with their life, and leave that "irrational path, or as you stated above, behavior".
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It seems that in two of the three examples, their "irrational" stage was somewhat temporary before they moved on to something else as Terby said. Only Rath was destroyed by his behavior, so what makes him different from Siddhartha and Fridolin?
ReplyDeleteYes, in a way terby is right, that they have lived full and healthy life after their experience, except Rath. I guess that Rath tried to adapt to that life and he couldn’t find the balance and he could not return to his old way of like so he ended up worse then the other two. In other words he went too far in. unlike Fridolin and Siddhartha were able to balance them self and able to come out of it.
ReplyDeleteThese characters lived in a society and era that behaviors like the ones we saw in the films were taboo leading to unreal inner satisfaction. I guess it is consider a healthy life after they experienced the forbidden while keeping the focus on their life.
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