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THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE
SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 1922
EURIPII)ES -_L QUESTIOXER As an artist he surpassed all his = iti1111111IIIIItlt I1 llllilillllitlllh1
(Continued from Page 1) contemporaries only in picturesque
vices and transgressions of women." ness, natural imagery and character
If any one can point out an instance I portrayal, In the last mentioned s
of his pity for the vices and trans-has no superior in any age. He does You can use an
gressions of any one, man or woman, 1 not portray the length and shape of
I should like to receive the informa- the lips or distance between the eyes,
tion. I think this notion is party due but rather he pierces through thei
to the fact that Euripides often chose veneer to look into the swell and
to depict women characters that were surge of instincts, impulses, desiresj
what society terms "wicked." These that tplay a wavin network amon
women were placed in a situation in the fires that smoulder, flash, and severa times a wee
which thsy brcaie a prey so teirible sch l, then die, leaving the man or
aod conflicting eimotians. The out- soman chill and stark, His fabic
standiiig exailie is edes tarn lie- is mind, passion, life, and he touches
tween love for her children and the and handles it as daintily as the
desire to revenge the wrongs and le- silled weaver il patterns of cendal
trayal of Jason. The poet took this 1l. _to restore freshness and
elemental savage woman into the NM 1 H E E"
suave Greek mciilization. Then theT beauty to wrinkled
man she had blindly and passion- (Continued from Page 4) -
ately followed deserted her for his own moods alien to clear analysis andi blouses and lngere
advancement. Her rage, suffering, reasonable readjustments.g e
and revenge are terrible. Jason that Those who have studied the char-
predecessor of a long line of fictitious acteristics of savage life are always
progeny, who tries to disentangle him- struck by its deadly conservatism, its1 -
self from the meshes of yet surviving needless restraints on the freedom of
passion in the woman, is not more1 the individual, and its hopeless
synpthetically drawn than is Medea routine.t* * One who prides Several nm akes o i
Love of truth, contempt of artificial himself loday oi his conservation, n
station, and sympathy for the lesser the ground that man is naturally an
beings of society bieak through the anarchic and disorderly creature who__
surface of his most romantic dream. is ieli in check isy the farseeing
A flood of beauty is often checked Tory, is almost exactly reversing the
A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ rt adatbatisoeichce is. Man is conservative by
while the sage speaks through one ,tute and Ieaiy generates rey
if ih characters or choruses. Al aiii ond iie il obsraces r-DET OITII
Smshwvth imgntn fstraints on himself and obstacles to==-
t~nhowever, the imtaginationso f o TH
the poet, ran riot leaving bewitchinghange wvhich have served to kee
wals. Ttus he oethimi in a state of savagery during al- Co.MI-N X/LIMSS
magic in its wake. Phlthe poetfmost his whole existence on the earth, CORMAIN AND WILLIAM STS.
vho cistidions all li ts ind sic- and which still perpetuate all sorts of
lusions that leid men astray, is guilty primitive barbarism in modern society. PHONE 2300
of creating others of even more taunt- The conservative "on principle" is
iog allurements. Try as lie would Ie therefore a most unmistakably primi-
could not shrivel into an abstraction tive person in his attitude. His only
to be labelled "Romanticist," "Real- advance biyond the savage mood lies:11111 11111111i111i11
ist, "Rationalist" and tucked away min the specious reasons he is able to
for posterity. He was entirely a hu- advance for remaining of the same
man being, denouncing one moment mind. What we vaguely call a "radi-
the thing he became next; hating in cal" is a very recent product due to al-
aspiration what intrigued him into together exceptional and unprecedent- '1 5 1n 4
achievementi; incongrous in disposi- ed circumstances.
Lion but always steadfast in purpose. (To be contnued next Sunday
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