"A Love Letter To The World" From Eurydice

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“A magical play with gripping emotional potency...a love letter to the world....” (The New York Times). As described by the New York Times, Eurydice is a love letter that anyone in the world can read, and feel as though it is written to them. It is a story of life and death, love and grief. Sarah Ruhl retells the myth of Orpheus from the view of Eurydice, his wife. Eurydice has many different scene that anyone can relate to. Some of my favorite scene was the first opening scene of their young love, and also the scene where Eurydices father pretends to walk her down the aisle. The plot of the play is very simple, with the climax of the when Orpheus goes to the underworld. I think the first scene is one of my favorite because it shows the emotions of truly being in love. In that scene Eurydice and Orpheus are in a beach and Orpheus asks her to marry him by tying a string to her finger as a ring. The string might be a metaphorical meaning for marriage, as they will be tied to each other for the rest of their lives. But more importantly, this scene shows how oblivious someone can be when they are in love, because the couple did not notice the lord of the underworld stalking Eurydice. I think their oblivious nature to their surroundings is universal for anyone who falls in love. There are many other scenes with powerful emotions in this play. The scene when Eurydices father pretends to walk her down the aisle is another one of my favorite scenes. Her father pretends to hold her hand and walk down the aisle, feeling proud as he looks at the imaginary guests, while the three stones wonder what he is doing. This scene shows another form of love, the love between a father and a daughter. His love for Eurydice may be the cause of her death, it shows that the love between them is eternal. Because he refuses to forget his past life, and I think the love between Eurydice and
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