Artikel
Widersprüche geschlechtlicher Identität in Heinrich von Kleists "Penthesilea"
Verfasst von:
Poluda, Eva S.
in:
Würzburg:
1998
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73 - 88 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Poluda, Eva S. |
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| Jahr: | 1998 |
| Sprache: | Deutsch |
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| Kleist's version of the antique material combines the saga of Achilles and Penthesilea with Euripides' "Bachae". First he tells the love story between a wild virgin and a true man, who are so fascinated with each other, that they are willing to go beyond the laws of their respective homo-erotic cultures in order to create a new world: he wants to beget the son of the earth together with her! In the second part of the tragedy Kleist shows how the utopia of love fails due to fear of the opposite sex: the female fear of being preyed on instead of being loved leads to the catastrophic realization of the male fear of being devoured. Just as a deluded Agaue tore her son Pentheus to pieces, so does Penthesilea the vulnerable, unwary Achilles. Penthesilea (i.e.: she who suffers the sorrow of mourning) turns him into Pentheus (i.e.: the suffering man). A-chilles (i.e.: the one without lips) fails with the A-mazon (i.e.: the one without breasts). In the end, she holds his slain corpse in her arms like the pieta, the mother of God holding the corpse of her crucified son. In so doing, Kleist presents themes existential to love within a dramatically breathtaking context of themes existential to the religious. | |
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