Pygmalion, a skilled Greek sculptor, fell in love with his statue of a beautiful woman named Galatea. Aphrodite, the goddess of love, fulfilled Pygmalion’s wishes by bringing Galatea to life, and the couple were married. Carol Ann Duffy’s poem, “Pygmalion’s Bride,” explores the transformation of Galatea from the woman’s perspective, highlighting issues such as sexism and rape. The poem uses the color white to symbolize beauty, innocence, and purity, while also highlighting issues such as sexism and rape. Galatea represents female victims on the other side of predation, with her cold ivory structure representing her reluctance. The poem also highlights how men objectify girls, as they embrace their feminine strength, sexuality, and individualism. The poem takes on a dark tone throughout, highlighting issues such as sexism and rape.
📹 The Man Who Fell in Love with a Statue – Pygmalion and Galatea – Greek Myhology in Comics
The Man Who Fell in Love with a Statue – Pygmalion and Galatea – Greek Myhology in Comics Art: Guilherme de Souza Color: …
📹 Pygmalion’s Bride by Carol Ann Duffy
Pygmalion’s Bride by Carol Ann Duffy from The World’s Wife.
Psychologically, Pygmalion tries to extract his anima (exactly what we do when males have their first crushes) and falls in love with it. Most of us undergo this, when boys like a girl they barely knew but adored so much. They present their anima (which is their idea of a perfect woman) and fall deeply in love, not with the woman, but their idea of the woman.
In ancient Greece the ultimate life purpose was to die for your country in war and not to just live a long peaceful life (see Leonidas). That’s why their mythology and ancient theatre scripts had almost all of their main characters endure tragedy and painful deaths. Only then their life had reached culmination. Of course this story had a happy ending, i guess they wanted to throw one of those every now and then
In the Disney series Hercules (the cartoon series). In one of the episode young Hercules needed a girl for a dance. He ask Aphrodite to bring the statue to life. Aphrodite fix the statue and even said “thats enough curve for you”, when Hercules ask for more curves. Hercules couldn’t think of what personality to give to the statue except for “crazy about me”. The girl was named Galatea and that episode was so funny. I didn’t know there was a specific legend relating to that episode.
I find it super interesting the similarities between this story and the tale of Ilmarinen and the gold and silver bride (Kalevala). Only I like better how Ilmarinen’s story ends. Väinämöinen helps him realize the pointlessness in trying to love a fantasy of your own making, and so Ilmarinen reforges the statue into trinkets for others and moves on. It’s also a bit reminiscent of the Midas myth now that I think about it
Such the most wonderous of Love Stories, ever told… A man who created the woman he wanted to love so dearly as a statue, only to gravely realize his obsession with it, before confessing his wish and shame to Aphrodite which touched her, letting her later grant his passion by turning his own creation as he kissed it, into the wife he so wanted to have, as both are blessed to be married.
Is anyone here familiar with the novel, The Bride of Stone? I got it years ago from a random book store and I can’t help but think that this was the inspiration for the sculpture character there who was also hired by Perivale; and instead of imagination, he used the combined features of the different women he asked to model for him. A witch there made the stone a real woman as part of a deal, iirc. It’s part of a trilogy but I haven’t read the third book. Ahhhh can anyone confirm????
Imagine being a thief, you’re about to rob Pygmalion, you decide to rob him at night time and the only place among your options to enter safely are through Pygmalion’s window… You enter quietly and see him and his wife as a statue laying in bed having a make-out session in their sleep.. What would you do in that awkward situation?
hat a lot of people don’t realize is that the Greeks didn’t believe myths were literal so when the Gods make a “Mistake” it’s not the Gods themselves committing these acts but rather just stories. If you’d like to know how the Greeks acutely felt and saw their Gods I’d be more than happy to help anyone understand the true nature of the Theio
This is the story of my ex husband and I. I’m serious about that too. If don’t like me? Blame him, totally blame him for the most part, because I’d certainly be just another pretty and sexy boring and maybe wicked women, like a witch, another one of selfish purposes only driven motivated premeditated narcissistic blindness Idiocracy effects beauty otherwise. Just some other gold diggers philosophy, but I don’t think so, but Old Country European women are also about the good husband, because my mom wasn’t that way too much. Her heart lead her life. That’s absolutely true. Self awareness is important, healthy pride and capacity of self criticism. I’ve got a good intelligent sense of humor. Like Galatea, I shunned my Pyrenee Pala Pygmalion when I became a real woman, not just only statuesque. That I was at my height and physical traits. Heck I didn’t even know what he was trying to finish academically besides a law student when I met him. It took me a while in the beginning to become absolutely crazy about him, but it happened. I was absolutely nuts about my husband. It just didn’t matter what he was out to be, if he loves it, great at it. If don’t like me or hate me? It’s his fault. He was my teacher of almost EVERYTHING I know post 1983. Brilliant men should see that about wives. Duh dudes. Obvious. We’re a reflection of our spouses. He’s definitely all about arts to mold me his own way.