Aphrodite is known to the world as the goddess of love. She is the sheer essence of beauty, it is in her definition. Gods find themselves becoming attracted to her when ever she is around. In the classical mythology 179 has quoted Aphrodite as "the goddess of physical attraction and procreation." On the other hand she can act in cruel ways. Such as, turning a village of women into prostitutes for not obeying her enough. Although, the man who is repulsed by such prostitutes was granted a wife by Aphrodite. It seems as though her will to do good and bad are equal. As for love, Aphrodite is capable of loving. She also is capable of only loving herself.
Dorian Gray is known from the book The Picture of Dorian Gray. It is remarked in almost every page of the novel that Dorian is a stunningly, beautiful person. This beauty is merely aesthetic. He is corrupt from beauty and does unpleasant things. He bares no sign of corruption on his face. Dorian stays as beautiful as he did when he was twenty. He has the will to do bad, yet at the same time he morns killing his friend and fiance. He thought he loved her, that was just beauty though.
Aphrodite and Dorian are unique symbols of love. They both are capable of loving and doing punishable deeds. I wonder what would happen if these two met. First Dorian would be entranced by Aphrodite's beauty and vice versa. Neither of them can resist beauty. Dorian, I believe, would become bewildered by his feelings for Aphrodite. Aphrodite would most likely do everything in her power to have Dorian. She could even put a spell upon him. Their love would be epic and godly. A half god half perfect human would be their child. With both of Aphrodite and Dorian obtaining unimaginable beauty, a lust for things which are beautiful and a dark side that prevails, it is hard to think these two wouldn't be an unimaginable force of entrancing desire and beauty.
I am not sure if a meeting between Aphrodite and Dorian would be as perfect as you indicated. I think that it would firstly depend on the timing of the meeting as by the time Dorian dies his conscience is hurting him, and he is very unhappy with beauty. Aphrodite although not able to boast of her power over the other gods anymore still performs acts of cruelty and thinks nothing of them. I believe that these two individuals would not get along if they were to meet in later life. Dorian also far from perfect as one can see by his portrait, and although aesthetically pleasing he begins to lose power over others as his reputation falters while Aphrodite in her godliness remains in power no matter what she does.
ReplyDeleteYour views and connection between Aphrodite are very interesting. I can understand where you are coming from and I thought the idea of them together and even having a child was quite pleasing. I do agree with the fact that Dorian would be drawn to her and vice versus because they both are first attracted to superficial beauty. I don't agree though that their love would continue. Love is the desire to possess something good, and both Aphrodite and Dorian Gray have extremely present dark sides that are in no way concealed. Once either one of them became close to the other, they would begin becoming disgusted with one another. We cannot truly love something corrupt and thus their relationship would crumble to pieces. Lastly, I wish you went more in depth about the plot,
ReplyDeleteJeez! That's a pretty wild thought there, G wiz. And you know what? I think it's a very insightful thought. I wonder how they would raise their child. Would they shun him or her from other children if they weren't beautiful? Or would they ignore him because he wasn't beautiful enough? What if by some strange genetic mutation he turned out deformed and hideous? What then. Would they just leave him on a doorstep and try again? Would they just keep having kids until they found one as beautiful as they are? Great post.
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