{"id":2162,"date":"2022-11-09T16:49:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T21:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2022-11-09T19:13:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T00:13:38","slug":"geryon-and-his-captivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2022\/11\/09\/geryon-and-his-captivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Geryon and His Captivity"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the novel Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, the main character Geryon is shown to be limited by the idea of captivity in his identity. I think that this stems from the difficulties he had in his childhood. His brother sexually assaulting him and his identity being different than those around him has limited him in how he sees himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the novel, the concept of \u201cinside\u201d connects to the mentions of captivity. After his brother assaults him for the first time he says, \u201cHe thought about the difference between outside and inside. Inside is mine, he thought\u201d (Carson, 29). He then later says he writes about his \u201cinside things\u201d in his autobiography and says that he omits all \u201coutside things. This connects to the concept of captivity because his inner thoughts are held captive in himself, he does not share them with any of the important people in his life. \u201cInside\u201d are the parts that he can control and everything on the outside, his brother and Herakles’ treatment of him, are out of his hands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When doing graffiti with Herakles later, Herekles says \u201cAll your designs are about captivity, it depresses me\u201d (Carson, 55). To me this would have been an opportunity for Geryon to talk to Herakles about his feelings, but he does not because of previous experiences with his brother. I think his brother telling him not to tell his mom about his assault has led to his feeling that he cannot tell anyone about his feelings.\u00a0 Previously in the book, Geryon has also said that a cage is his favorite weapon when prompted by his brother. He has felt what a \u201ccage\u201d has done to him and thinks it is brutal enough to be a weapon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another interesting moment regarding captivity was when Geryon was talking about seeing a dog with rabies. He says \u201cWhen the owner stepped up and put a gun to the dog’s temple, Geryon walked away. Now leaning forward to peer out the little oblong window where icy cloudlight drilled his eyes he wished he had stayed to see it go free\u201d (Carson, 78) This makes me think more about the attitude that Geryon has towards his own captivity. If he is thinking about death being a\u201cfreeing\u201d experience, has he ever thought about that regarding himself and his own captivity?<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the novel Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, the main character Geryon is shown to be limited by the idea of captivity in his identity. I think that this stems from the difficulties he had in his childhood. His brother sexually assaulting him and his identity being different than those around him has limited … Continue reading Geryon and His Captivity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5016,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169404],"tags":[169388],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-blog-post","tag-autobiography-of-red"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","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\/5016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}