"If the leviathan is death, and the hero has to enter the body of death, the hero has to die, and if his quest is completed the final stage of it is, cyclically, rebirth, and, dialectically, resurrection" (Frye 192).
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English 510: The Displacement of Myth in Literature and Dream...and Life. Also, at times, personal poetry.
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3 comments:
I'm really intrigued by the idea of the leviathan. Why a leviathan? I understand the death - apocalyptic imagery with water, but why a leviathan? Is it the water equivalent of the dragon?
didn't Thomas Hobbs write a book called "Leviathan" ? Does anyone know if that fits into our type of conversation?
There is an Anglo-Saxon poem titled the "Whale"; the title is debated because of translations and the such. It more resembles a leviathan in the sense of a large aquatic monster. But, if we're looking in term of Frye, does the death and destruction written in the poem have an implied rebirth. Would the Anglo-Saxon's have known this?
Hobbes--I think there is an "e" in his last name--titled his book after the bibical leviathan. The books about building a perfect commonwealth. So, I'd say he's displacing the myth of a nation. One, the leviathan as a great monster with no earthly match, which he equates to the commonwealth. Also, something about the Isrealities choosing an earthly medium, Saul, for a king as a rejection of God plays in there perhaps. I have not read all of the book though so I'm not sure. Perhaps someone else can elucidate this concept.
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