I just noticed tha tHiram Power's Greek Slave was on the board for tonight. I have never read it before, but I felt that it belied a sorrow that Elizabeth Browning may have felt, in that we constantly dress up the wrongs of mankind and make them beautiful. We dress up the anguish and center only on the beauty that is represented in our presentation. We deny the truth that lies beneath. Her is a beautiful Slave, yet the artist makes her to seem romantic and divine, yet denying us the chance to see the grief and brokeness that a slave must have felt.
Women win, of course.
It's like Jennifer said, we don't know if it is really out there under the sea. It is the mystery and uncertainty of the monoster that gives it life, and makes it interesting. It seems to me that this passage relates to our society today just as in a time of industrial boom in the Victorian Era, so are we today so caught up in our wireless on the go service-oriented daily grind that we fail to stop and enjoy life. I mixed up with Eliot-T.S that is. The beliefs of the Greeks are only what is left to us through written manuscripts.