This thesis presents a way of reading with Paul de Man's ideas on allegory and irony. Prometheus Unbound has often been interpreted as a poem with political or Christian aims. I would say, these ways of interpreting the poem are only thematic approaches. This kind of interpretation belongs to symbol...
This thesis presents a way of reading with Paul de Man's ideas on allegory and irony. Prometheus Unbound has often been interpreted as a poem with political or Christian aims. I would say, these ways of interpreting the poem are only thematic approaches. This kind of interpretation belongs to symbolization. Symbolization is one of these ways, and it is only in the realm of temporality. The temporality is linear and diachronic. Its signification creates the illusory identification and presupposes the transcenden-signified in the center. However, the center is not to be occupied by any totalizing theme. According to de Man, that is the temporality between the sign and the object of its reference.
As de Man takes the space of allegory, "time is the originally constitutive category." Time has the ultimately ends, that is, all this finishes, and in the world of allegory, time is possible only domain of the signification of the allegory in the fact of the impossibility; in other words, signification of allegory, since the signification is produced by interaction only between sign and another sign that precedes it. It makes a repetitive circulation of meanings through pure anteriority. Repetition of signs leaves a series of allegorical index as a trace.
Prometheus, who brought men language, could have his identification and power through his words long ago. But he is unable to recall the curse, because it is placed on the distance of time. Although he can recall the curse, it is different from the original. His own identity remains an unsolvable problem. The revolutionary prophecy that can govern him with power is revealed by others' phantoms, but reveals that there are allegorical productions of meanings.
The prophecy says that his revolution would be accomplished by the union between Prometheus and Asia. Asia believes the prophecy pursues the transcendental-signified in the center. In addition, her intention that Jupiter's falling is replaced with power. Demogorgon warns her the danger of such a transcendental-signified. His form covered by veils has no image, truth cannot be revealed definitely and is formless. Futhermore, once revolution comes in Act Ⅲ, it is eclipsed by Demogorgon. He refuses fixed thought and description in language, as he warns the intoxication of the transcendental-signified. The revolution and the Utopia established by the result of revolution are only an instantaneous irony of the split self. "An irony is a consciousness of a non-consciousness, a reflection on madness from the inside of madness itself", it is something that makes the consciousness possible.
Demogorgon always declares the ever-mutability and becoming. Prometheus Unbound is not intended for utopia but rather for the perpetual revolution. Revolution has the ever-lasting disruption instead of that accomplished once for all. It tries perpetual mutability with temporal distance.
Thus the meaning of revolution is not fixed and exists on the endless references of incompletion. Progressing references are placed on the infinity with the center not to be filled. It always tries to be another new revolution. The center is void of the totality. The void is ever waiting for new revolution.
This thesis presents a way of reading with Paul de Man's ideas on allegory and irony. Prometheus Unbound has often been interpreted as a poem with political or Christian aims. I would say, these ways of interpreting the poem are only thematic approaches. This kind of interpretation belongs to symbolization. Symbolization is one of these ways, and it is only in the realm of temporality. The temporality is linear and diachronic. Its signification creates the illusory identification and presupposes the transcenden-signified in the center. However, the center is not to be occupied by any totalizing theme. According to de Man, that is the temporality between the sign and the object of its reference.
As de Man takes the space of allegory, "time is the originally constitutive category." Time has the ultimately ends, that is, all this finishes, and in the world of allegory, time is possible only domain of the signification of the allegory in the fact of the impossibility; in other words, signification of allegory, since the signification is produced by interaction only between sign and another sign that precedes it. It makes a repetitive circulation of meanings through pure anteriority. Repetition of signs leaves a series of allegorical index as a trace.
Prometheus, who brought men language, could have his identification and power through his words long ago. But he is unable to recall the curse, because it is placed on the distance of time. Although he can recall the curse, it is different from the original. His own identity remains an unsolvable problem. The revolutionary prophecy that can govern him with power is revealed by others' phantoms, but reveals that there are allegorical productions of meanings.
The prophecy says that his revolution would be accomplished by the union between Prometheus and Asia. Asia believes the prophecy pursues the transcendental-signified in the center. In addition, her intention that Jupiter's falling is replaced with power. Demogorgon warns her the danger of such a transcendental-signified. His form covered by veils has no image, truth cannot be revealed definitely and is formless. Futhermore, once revolution comes in Act Ⅲ, it is eclipsed by Demogorgon. He refuses fixed thought and description in language, as he warns the intoxication of the transcendental-signified. The revolution and the Utopia established by the result of revolution are only an instantaneous irony of the split self. "An irony is a consciousness of a non-consciousness, a reflection on madness from the inside of madness itself", it is something that makes the consciousness possible.
Demogorgon always declares the ever-mutability and becoming. Prometheus Unbound is not intended for utopia but rather for the perpetual revolution. Revolution has the ever-lasting disruption instead of that accomplished once for all. It tries perpetual mutability with temporal distance.
Thus the meaning of revolution is not fixed and exists on the endless references of incompletion. Progressing references are placed on the infinity with the center not to be filled. It always tries to be another new revolution. The center is void of the totality. The void is ever waiting for new revolution.
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