Death as friend with Moïra Müller

Orpheus falls in love and desires an everlasting unity with his lover, which is why he enters the underworld. He believes that the art of music will allow him to conquer death and retrieve his Eurydice, in which he almost succeeds. But then, he looks back.

Why does Orpheus look back? According to philosopher Moïra Müller, this is perhaps the most interesting question of all translated myths, and confronts us with our human condition, our freedom and our inevitable fate. The metaphor of looking questions the idea of life’s malleability, and makes us consider to accept death a little more. In this way, we should not look back that often, and death will not threaten us so much.

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