The Doors

I am sitting here in my dorm room after just taking the test. My floor is filled with neo hippies that are listening to the band The Doors. My mind is still overwhelmed with this concept of Dionysus and duality of man. In Antgony it is not necessarily the duality of a person per say but the duality of the concept of a tragedy. On one hand you have Creon who represents the old in the conflict of young and old; and then you have Antigony that represents the young. This is a pretty obvious statement to make but it is far more deep than just a few words that shows I have read Steiner. Creon to me is a fine example of hypocritical old fool. In one scene he tells the watchman greed will bring him down if he is not careful but this is exactly Creons demise. He was a selfish old man that saw his life quickly ticking away and decided to act on written laws when he should have searched into his soul to see that the unwritten laws of the earth are more important. On the other hand you have Antigony. She is young, foolish and will act on her deepest desires without haste. She represents an innocence that knows nothing but unwritten laws of the world. They are essentially polar opposites on all the main themes of this play Man & Gods, Living & Dead, Society & Individual, Men & Woman and of course age and youth. Dionysus is a god but also a concept of human nature. In Antigony he is a god that is summoned to earth to settle the tragedy of these characters. In real life Dionysus is a symbol of every day life. Should I walk through one door that represents Antigony or should I walk through the other door that represts Creon. Each is a choice that will ultimately summon Dionysus and bring are demise as we see in Sophocles Antigony. I would like to relate this to the Band The Doors and their lead singer Jim Morison. This is just my own concept but I feel like the band particularly Jim Morrison constantly wrestled with the choice of going through Anitgony’s door or going through Creon’s door. Ultimately both doors are a path to selfishness. Even Antigony’s door is self-centered and comes to a fast reselotution when she decides to open it. Jim Morrison decides to open her door when nearing the end of his life. He chooses immortality through his restless youthfulness. By opening this door he summons Dionysus and is ultimately immortalized.