Open AccessSataniczność kreacji bohatera w Arabie Juliusza Słowackiego
Author(s) -
Małgorzata Nowak
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
przestrzenie teorii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2450-5765
pISSN - 1644-6763
DOI - 10.14746/pt.2021.35.10
Subject(s) - psyche , loneliness , context (archaeology) , perspective (graphical) , literature , paradise , hero , variation (astronomy) , preference , art , philosophy , history , art history , psychology , epistemology , social psychology , archaeology , microeconomics , economics , visual arts , physics , astrophysics
This article attempts to read Juliusz Słowacki’s Arab from the comparative perspective of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. The protagonist of Słowacki’s oriental tale, who is a variation on the Byronic hero, also shows similarities with Milton’s Satan: unceasing motion, obsession of revenge, loneliness, axiological preference of evil. The analysis of those similarities creates a new interpretative context for Arab, which was hitherto regarded as a superficial study of the pathological psyche or a caricature of the Byronic model.