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casiavium · 1 year ago

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I'm sure it has been written about many times before but my gf is watching Utena and I'm going crazy over the foreshadowing in these statues

The Rape of Persephone, young girl (Kore/Persephone—she would have been a young girl, Kore is literally the word for maiden) is kidnapped by a family member and forced to stay with him, her being with him makes life bad for everyone else (Demeter causing winter)

Orpheus tries to be a hero and save Eurydice from her fate but ultimately it is his love for her that dooms her

The Bremen Town Musicians is a story about escaping to a better life and "resilience and refusing to stay down when others put you down"

#tw rape #revolutionary girl utena #foaming at the mouth I didn't notice that the first time #she sent me the greek statues asking what they were and i went WAIT ACTUALLY #foreshadowing?#and then she goes yeah I recognized the german one it's about escaping. so like Nanami from Touga?#(she doesn't knowwww this is her first time watching it)#AHHH #symbolism in utena can be anything from kouze takes a cylindrical object from miki (it is phallic and therefore incestual assault)#which I'm not saying you're wrong but that feels like a stretch #to these statues are of stories that foreshadow the final episodes

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