魅力中国
魅力中國
매력중국
CHARMING CHINA
2011年
8期
268
,共1页
Death%Love%Eros and Thanates%Sleep
Death, together with love, is a perpetual motif in Shakespearean love tragedies. Shakespeare's protagonists die a noble death. They cannot wait to rush to the deathbed which they see as the marriage bed. Antony and Cleopatra is the last Shakespearian play in which love and death is dramatized. Framed under Freud's theory of Eros (instinct of life) and Thanatos (instinct of death), the fantasy of being two in one appeals to their unconscious desire to go back to the inorganic state where they can achieve eternity. Such instinct of death manifested in Antony is in his yearning to go back to sleep, to go beyond mortality and to enter none - existence where he can get mingled with his beloved.
