ORPHÉE, UN MYTHE ACTUEL

Abstract

This article focuses ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF MODERN MAN WITH THE MYTH OF ORPHEUS WHICH REMAINS VERY PRESENT IN TODAY’S LIFE. IN THIS REGARD, THIS FAMOUS NARRATIVE, FULL OF MEANING, PLAYS A FUNDAMENTAL SOCIAL ROLE BY OFFERING A REPRESENTATION OF OUR CURRENT LIFE. THROUGH THIS MYTH, WE CAN MEASURE OURSELVES TO OUR DESTINY OR SEE AN ACCOMPLISHED REFLECTION OF OUR EXISTENCE. THE FATE OF ORPHEUS, WHO DESCENDED TO THE KINGDOM OF THE DEAD TO FIND THE BEAUTIFUL EURYDICE, CHALLENGES US TO MAKE AN ASSESSMENT OF OUR PRESENT condition. the notion of progress deprives us of the right to be nostalgic. to live in modernity is to accept the conditions of the capitalist system and that of a modern consumer society with its pitfalls and its merciless imperatives which even tolerate the transgression of any moral and cultural limit. in the image of poor orpheus, the new liberal adam is condemned TO FOLLOW THE STEEP PATH OF MODERNITY AND PROGRESS, deprived OF HIS RIGHT TO ALLOW HIMSELF THE SLIGHTEST RETROSPECTIVE LOOK AT HIS PAST.