We have
decided to include the theme of heaven and hell to show class in our piece.
This is to exaggerate the different social classes, for example, the richer
people will be residents in Heaven (known in Greek Mythology as Elysian Fields)
and the poorer classes will reside in Hell (known in Greek Mythology as The
Underworld).
Here I
have done some research on the two very different places:
Elysian
Fields/Olympus:
For the
purposes of our piece we will be calling Olympus Heaven just because it is a
catchier name that the audience will be more familiar with. The real Greek
Heaven was called the Elysian Fields), in Greek mythology, the final resting
places of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous. The souls that
dwelled there had an easy afterlife and had no labours. Normal people
who lived righteous and virtuous lives could also gain entrance such as Socrates who proved his worth sufficiently through philosophy.
This goes with the theme of having the richer people at the higher class areas
of the site in Olympus because rich people are viewed as being more heroic even
if they haven’t really achieved anything. The Elysian Fields were thought to of
been ruled over by the God Cronus.
The Underworld:
The Greek underworld, in mythology, is another world where souls go
after death, and is the original Greek idea of afterlife. At the moment of death the soul is separated
from the corpse, taking on the shape of the former person, and is transported
to the entrance of the Underworld. The Underworld itself is described as
being either at the outer bounds of the ocean or beneath the depths or ends of
the earth. It is considered the
dark counterpart to the brightness of Mount Olympus, and is the kingdom of the dead that
corresponds to the kingdom of the gods. Hades the ruler of The Underworld is a
realm invisible to the living, made solely for the dead. This goes with the idea that poor people in our
piece are having to sell their souls in order to find a place to live in hell
(the Underworld).
The
audience in our performance will be potential property buyers who will be unknowingly
on the journey to the underworld to buy or be given a house there due to the
lack of houses elsewhere. This journey has a name in Greek Mythology which is
called the Journey on the River Styx or the Descent to The Underworld.
In Greek mythology, Styx is a deity and a river that
forms the boundary between Earth and
The Underworld (the
domain often called Hades, which also is the name of its ruler).
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