{"id":1001,"date":"2016-03-27T23:37:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T03:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2016-03-27T23:37:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T03:37:50","slug":"the-power-of-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2016\/03\/27\/the-power-of-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anne Carson’s\u00a0Autobiography of Red<\/em> retells the ancient Greek myth of Herakles\u00a0slaying Geryon, a red-winged monster. From Geryon’s perspective, we discover his humanity, and the toll that his relationship with Herakles took on him. From Geryon’s perspective, we discover a love story that we otherwise wouldn’t have known about. I think that retelling this story from Geryon’s perspective also causes the reader to question\u00a0who was really the “bad guy”. This is to say that we often misinterpret who characters are when we only hear about them from one perspective. From\u00a0the ancient Greek myth, we are lead to believe that Herakles is the hero and Geryon is evil. From\u00a0Autobiography of Red<\/em> our opinions shift because Geryon is the one getting his heart broken by Herakles. I think that the retelling of this\u00a0ancient Greek myth is significant because it\u00a0notifies the reader to be skeptical of the narrator, as there is always another side to the story. Furthermore, this retelling is showing\u00a0readers the perspective of someone who is misunderstood. More specifically, this retelling is giving someone who is misunderstood the chance to be understood and even accepted. If we don’t hear the stories of those that we don’t understand, then we can never learn to accept them.\u00a0I also think this novel exposes which story\u00a0society is more willing to accept and continue telling. Geryon is misunderstood and therefore his story is ignored, much like how\u00a0people who identify as anything but normal are silenced. Anna Carson’s\u00a0Autobiography of Red<\/em> reimagines the myth\u00a0of Herakles and Geryon and\u00a0gives a voice to the character who\u00a0was silenced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anne Carson’s\u00a0Autobiography of Red retells the ancient Greek myth of Herakles\u00a0slaying Geryon, a red-winged monster. From Geryon’s perspective, we discover his humanity, and the toll that his relationship with Herakles took on him. From Geryon’s perspective, we discover a love story that we otherwise wouldn’t have known about. I think that retelling this story from … Continue reading The Power of Perspective<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2970,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2970"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}