Apollonian and Dionysian

aesthetics and even referring to them as the “art sponsoring deities”. Apollo the god of light, whose Nietzsche Apollonian character is the disposition for the visual arts, while Dionysus the god of wine is Nietzsche’s Dionysiac character is the disposition for the non-visual art of music. Stating art owes its continuous evolution to the Apollonian-Dionysiac duality. For Nietzsche the Apollonian character is like human reason, rational thought in fact. Apollo is about thinking, not feeling,…

The story “The Interlopers” written by Saki is also connected with Nietzsche’s philosophy on Apollo and Dionysus, which are central themes within his first major work, The Birth of Tragedy. I am going to argue that the Apollonian and Dionysian philosophy can describe not only humans and that someone can go from Dionysus to Apollo with just a few words. I am going to argue this despite the fact that in general this philosophy is applied on human beings, yet relating it with “The Interlopers”.…

Kant’s distinction between the beautiful and the sublime is very similar to the division Nietzsche makes between the Apollonian and Dionysian tendencies in art. They both claim that there are aesthetic experiences that are oriented towards a form or rational ideal (Nietzsche believes this ideal to be a dream), but there are also aesthetic experiences that expose man to limitlessness and formlessness. However, Kant and Nietzsche are not going to agree on what an aesthetic experience of the…

the actions that they do that is defined under Apollonian and Dionysian. I am more Apollonian than Dionysian. However, I do have a little Dionysian in me. There are things that I did well this year and some things that I need to improve on as well. To begin, there is two types of people in Apollonianism and Dionysianism by Friedrich Nietzsche. Apollonian is a person that follows the rules is very precise and cares about other's feelings. Dionysian people are the opposite. They are wild,…

The Dionysian and the Apollonian in The Night of the Hunter When a story-teller or artist wants to bring the audience into an unfamiliar world, they may employ some classical ways of storytelling to ease the audience in. They may use Dionysian themes to present an Apollonian story to the audience. Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter is a great example of a film doing this. The events that take place in Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter are those of pure horror, it is a story…

Self-Reflecting is never an easy task, no matter who you are. Usually, individuals always focus on the bad that they have done, rather than the good. There is usually always more good than bad but human nature makes us feel like we have to point out the bad instead of the good, which is sad. Throughout my year in Mr. McGee 's class, I have completed what seems to be a never ending list of work, and I always seemed to be up into the wee hours of the night, or morning, finishing up annotations, or…

of the title of the concert. “The Lords” is a characterization of the Nizetich ideal from the book, The Birth of Tragedy - the book articles on the Apollonian and Dionysian duality. The duality that describes the difference between what is seen - the Apollonian - and what lies behind the walls that is the inner workings of what is seen - the Dionysian aspect . Furthermore, in The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche describes what “the creatures” are. The creatures are the people who see the world on at…

determined that responses evoked from works of art can be either Apollonian or Dionysian in nature. With the Apollonian response, a person's reaction to the work of art is "dominated by reason and disciplined analytical, rational, and coherent thought"(Janaro and Altshuler) Where on the other hand, a Dionysian response is "dominated by feelings, intuition, and freedom from limits:"(Janaro and Altshuler). Good Bones would be classified as a Dionysian work of art. One reader's intense reaction to…

Dionysian is similar to Enlightenment versus Romanticism. Inspired by classical Greek and Roman literature alongside scientific observation, Enlightenment (dominant in Europe in the 18th century) is an ideology that is keen on science, pragmatism, and values…

Nietzsche’s writing are very distinctive and provocative in their style. His writing are designed to provoke question or even to provoke doubts rather to answer basic philosophical questions. In this respect, Nietzsche has a particular fondness for use of metaphors, parabolas and aphorism. Nietzsche in his book ‘On Genealogy of morality’ sought to prove certain points about the morality by tracking its history, the way and which people are conceived of morality. Nietzsche takes the view that…