Perseus The Deliverer
— Sri Aurobindo
| Price: Rs 300 Pages: 206 Dimensions (in cms): 14x22 ISBN: 978-93-5813-632-6 | Soft Cover | |
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About Perseus The Deliverer
Sri Aurobindo wrote this play during the period of his political activity. Published serially across several months in Bande Mataram during 1907, Sri Aurobindo would later revise the text, adding a new ending. It was the only play of his published during his lifetime.
The plot of Perseus the Deliverer derives from the ancient Greek legend of Perseus and Andromeda. Sri Aurobindo transformed the original heroic myth into a story of human nature ruled by its attendant unthinking urges, much on the Elizabethan model, and set in a romanticised Syria. Sri Aurobindo acknowledged in a foreword that “myth, romance and realism” are rolled into an imaginative recreation of the legend, whose “stage is the human mind of all times”. The story is one of growth from a relatively primitive consciousness to the intellectual and humanistic state of a more civilised man. Constantly faced with the threat of the lower life-forces usurping that new poise, he experiences the initial stirrings of a higher consciousness, psychic and spiritual in essence. Perseus embodies the evolutionary man.
The plot of Perseus the Deliverer derives from the ancient Greek legend of Perseus and Andromeda. Sri Aurobindo transformed the original heroic myth into a story of human nature ruled by its attendant unthinking urges, much on the Elizabethan model, and set in a romanticised Syria. Sri Aurobindo acknowledged in a foreword that “myth, romance and realism” are rolled into an imaginative recreation of the legend, whose “stage is the human mind of all times”. The story is one of growth from a relatively primitive consciousness to the intellectual and humanistic state of a more civilised man. Constantly faced with the threat of the lower life-forces usurping that new poise, he experiences the initial stirrings of a higher consciousness, psychic and spiritual in essence. Perseus embodies the evolutionary man.
