In order to illustrate the possibility of such a result of the struggle between environment and personality, it was necessary, Maeterlinck further explained, to place the chief personages of the drama in very peculiar circumstances, and to invoke the... Washington University Studies - Page 135by Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1914Full view - About this book
| 1904 - 550 pages
...his earlier dramas and the realistic "Monna Vanna." In the words of M. Maeterlinck : "It represents the triumph of will and love over destiny or fatality, as against the converse lesson of 'Monna Vanna.' ' In this drama Maeterlinck's distinctively symbolic method finds the same full play as in "Pelleas... | |
| 1904 - 546 pages
...his earlier dramas and the realistic "Monna Vanna." In the words of M. Maeterlinck : "It represents the triumph of will and love over destiny or fatality, as against the converse lesson of 'Monna Vanna.' " In this drama Maeterlinck's distinctively symbolic method finds the same full play as in "Pelleas... | |
| 1906 - 750 pages
...final authority of love — perfect, eternal, true. In the words of M. Maeterlinck : " It represents U ` A Aa, \ ց G l `ol i $ D!_ (Y4 8Ra " ^A ? z = ' Ğ_sS[ ؑ / & x' O [ ߰ " Through Arielle. his subliminal self, Merlin has learned to realize "his interior force, the forgotten... | |
| Archibald Henderson - 1911 - 348 pages
...and significant, relying as it does upon such obvious symbolism. "It represents", said Maeterlinck, "the triumph of will and love over Destiny, or fatality as against the converse lesson of Monna Vanna." In order to illustrate the possibility of such a result of the struggle between environment and personality,... | |
| Montrose Jonas Moses - 1911 - 362 pages
...(Grace Corneau) ; Lamp, 27:581-86 (J. Huneker). 254 In "Joyzelle," as he himself has said, there is "the triumph of will and love over destiny or fatality, as against the converse lesson of 'Monna Vanna.' " It is a play that might become the text for a trial of love, in which the two young folk, Joyzelle... | |
| Archibald Henderson - 1911 - 382 pages
...and significant, relying as it does upon such obvious symbolism. "It represents", said Maeterlinck, "the triumph of will and love over Destiny, or fatality as against the converse lesson of Monna Vanna." In order to illustrate the possibility of such a result of the struggle between environment and personality,... | |
| Archibald Henderson - 1913 - 412 pages
...coherent and significant, relying upon such obvious symbolism. " It represents," said Maeterlinck, " the triumph of will and love over Destiny, or fatality as against the converse lesson of Monna Vnnna." In order to illustrate the possibility of such a result of the struggle between environment... | |
| Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1914 - 426 pages
...dramatically, without offensive incongruity and referred by the spectator easily, if unhistorically, to the fifteenth century provenience of the story....idea is symbolically expressed in the temptations of Lance"or and in the liberation of Joyzelle and her lover from the power of Merlin and his genius Arielle,... | |
| Otto Heller - 1918 - 236 pages
...fantastic of all Maeterlinck's productions, is still farther removed from the fatalistic atmosphere. This play sounds, as the author himself has stated,...idea is symbolically expressed in the temptations of Lanceor and in the liberation of Joyzelle and her lover from the power of Merlin and his familiar,... | |
| Archibald Henderson - 1926 - 516 pages
...coherent and significant, relying upon such obvious symbolism. " It represents," said Maeterlinck, " the triumph of will and love over Destiny, or fatality as against the converse lesson of Monna Vanna." In order to illustrate the possibility of such a result of the struggle between environment and personality,... | |
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