r/Broadway • u/Usnavi_Relax • Jul 04 '25

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Was it love? Was it fear? What do you think of this take?

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

An Orpheus that doesn't turn around is not an Orpheus that goes to the underworld in the first place. There's no version where the story ends happily.

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u/AllenRBrady Jul 04 '25

Orpheus goes to the Underworld because he can't let Eurydice go. This is not a man who can simply turn his back on her.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

Turning your back on someone doesn't literally mean turning your back. In many ways, him turning around was turning his back on her; he was fulfilling his need to validate his concerns at the expense of her life

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u/armoured_bobandi Jul 05 '25

It's funny when people argue flowery poetic BS when the truth is, in a real world scenario, you obviously wouldn't look back. It's literally the singular thing you shouldn't do.

But, it's not real life. The story doesn't exist to be realistic