Fates and Furies
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Motifs and the themes Groff gives off through them
Erik
Jul 31, 2016 05:06PM
Three of the main motifs (in my opinion) were 1) Alcohol, 2) Character's Names, and 3) Staircases and roads.
Starting with staircases, and roads, it seemed Groff often described roads as dirt path, gravel, etc. and I am unclear of the significance, but I do think their is significance there. Staircases seemed to resemble the lack of control one has on its own life (staircase being a path already created). The staircase in Jello's suicide to me seems significant, the staircase off the plane where Lotto fell, and how Mathilde had to climb up every time she went to Bette's place.
Characters name's also seemed very significant to me.
The almost identical names of Ariel and Aierelle seemed to imply to me that Ariel was another blockade holding Mathilde back from truly experiencing life. College is the most influential and formidable times in peoples life, and Mathilde spent her college days mostly fulfilling her business contract with Ariel, but even more importantly, she was afraid to make connections and form friends in fear of its influence over the business contract.
Lotto seems to be fitting for Lancelot as most of his life was really out of his control. His success in life came from what he did blacked out, as well as mathilde's editing of the blacked out writing. His ability to command a room and also appear as a leader, one who got his way, was not much more than an illusion, as he constantly seeked universal love, (his lifelong hatred for that reviewer).
God, the dog. One of the most fascinating characters for me, Groff described dogs as nothing more than a mimic of its owner, and thats plausibly Groff's vision of what God is in our world. So peaceful, never in the wrong, but at the same time, a animal whose owner's experience is limited by their mindset, actions, excetra.
Alcohol seemed to me to be a sign where, similar to the ghosts of hungers, one would drink in hopes of achieving a positive, but would usually result in an exact 180 of what they were hoping. And the only time alcohol was turned down was upon finding the true Mathilde.
Please add thoughts, other motifs, or anything related to anything in this book!
Loved the read, and man, a book truly full of extended metaphors.
P.S. (Interesting Thought)
It seemed as if most characters looked in others what they didn't have themselves, to some extent. Something that really stuck out to me was Mathilde's hiring of a Private Investigator, but then so appalled when the Private Investigator was a "Creep" in her personal life.
Starting with staircases, and roads, it seemed Groff often described roads as dirt path, gravel, etc. and I am unclear of the significance, but I do think their is significance there. Staircases seemed to resemble the lack of control one has on its own life (staircase being a path already created). The staircase in Jello's suicide to me seems significant, the staircase off the plane where Lotto fell, and how Mathilde had to climb up every time she went to Bette's place.
Characters name's also seemed very significant to me.
The almost identical names of Ariel and Aierelle seemed to imply to me that Ariel was another blockade holding Mathilde back from truly experiencing life. College is the most influential and formidable times in peoples life, and Mathilde spent her college days mostly fulfilling her business contract with Ariel, but even more importantly, she was afraid to make connections and form friends in fear of its influence over the business contract.
Lotto seems to be fitting for Lancelot as most of his life was really out of his control. His success in life came from what he did blacked out, as well as mathilde's editing of the blacked out writing. His ability to command a room and also appear as a leader, one who got his way, was not much more than an illusion, as he constantly seeked universal love, (his lifelong hatred for that reviewer).
God, the dog. One of the most fascinating characters for me, Groff described dogs as nothing more than a mimic of its owner, and thats plausibly Groff's vision of what God is in our world. So peaceful, never in the wrong, but at the same time, a animal whose owner's experience is limited by their mindset, actions, excetra.
Alcohol seemed to me to be a sign where, similar to the ghosts of hungers, one would drink in hopes of achieving a positive, but would usually result in an exact 180 of what they were hoping. And the only time alcohol was turned down was upon finding the true Mathilde.
Please add thoughts, other motifs, or anything related to anything in this book!
Loved the read, and man, a book truly full of extended metaphors.
P.S. (Interesting Thought)
It seemed as if most characters looked in others what they didn't have themselves, to some extent. Something that really stuck out to me was Mathilde's hiring of a Private Investigator, but then so appalled when the Private Investigator was a "Creep" in her personal life.
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