I realised it, too... Even re-read the P. Canto 22 after the 1st episode...
Call me a fool, but ı like to think in this way cıonsiderin the above comments on CG being a Classical Greek Tragedy...
I think we can't completely call CG a Greek Tragedy. Yeah, Lulu has all the requirements of a tragic hero, his hubris, his Oidipus complex and all... But Lelouch doesn't start as a hero who has prosperity and later on falls to ruin. At the very beginning we see him already lost a lot of things. And he had already has a few moments of fall-ruin-loss of everything he has... But we can always argue that the climax hasn't lived yet and maybe his complete ruin will come as his death... Who knows but in some forums I read that the producers promised a happy ending-at least for Lulu- to the fans... How much credible, arguable.
Yet, then again, I very much want to see CG unfold as a reverse-tragedy, ie. from ruin to prosperity... since CG destroyed many cliches of Mecha anime genre, why not we see Sunrise do the same to the classical tragedy genre...
In light of this, I have been thinking about Divine Comedy allusion of the first ep...
I fancy thinking that CC is Virgil to Lelouch who descends to his own Inferno and CC guides him-not always explaining what they experience-see, but as a guide of sorts for Lelouch to reach his own heaven. As another commenter pointed out, CC deems herself damned and has no place no where... Though Virgil doesn't think so, he has no place to go, too. Neither heaven nor hell, his existence hangs in between, namely in purgatory...
If we take Nunally as Lelouch's Beatrice, then he thrives for reaching her, who represents the innocence, light, salvation for Dante... Though Nunally is seemingly out of the picture and Lulu no longer only does what he does for her sake, I like to think this way.
This also supports my idea of CG turning out to be a reverse tragedy -something like this don't exist, at least term-wise-. I mean by Virgil's-CC's guidence Dante-Lelouch travels from Hell to Heaven to reach to their salvation-ideal world that their Beatrice-Nunally emboides- wishes for....
Baw... Forgive me for these scattered thoughts... and don't laugh at me :D
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Call me a fool, but ı like to think in this way cıonsiderin the above comments on CG being a Classical Greek Tragedy...
I think we can't completely call CG a Greek Tragedy. Yeah, Lulu has all the requirements of a tragic hero, his hubris, his Oidipus complex and all... But Lelouch doesn't start as a hero who has prosperity and later on falls to ruin. At the very beginning we see him already lost a lot of things. And he had already has a few moments of fall-ruin-loss of everything he has... But we can always argue that the climax hasn't lived yet and maybe his complete ruin will come as his death... Who knows but in some forums I read that the producers promised a happy ending-at least for Lulu- to the fans... How much credible, arguable.
Yet, then again, I very much want to see CG unfold as a reverse-tragedy, ie. from ruin to prosperity... since CG destroyed many cliches of Mecha anime genre, why not we see Sunrise do the same to the classical tragedy genre...
In light of this, I have been thinking about Divine Comedy allusion of the first ep...
I fancy thinking that CC is Virgil to Lelouch who descends to his own Inferno and CC guides him-not always explaining what they experience-see, but as a guide of sorts for Lelouch to reach his own heaven. As another commenter pointed out, CC deems herself damned and has no place no where... Though Virgil doesn't think so, he has no place to go, too. Neither heaven nor hell, his existence hangs in between, namely in purgatory...
If we take Nunally as Lelouch's Beatrice, then he thrives for reaching her, who represents the innocence, light, salvation for Dante... Though Nunally is seemingly out of the picture and Lulu no longer only does what he does for her sake, I like to think this way.
This also supports my idea of CG turning out to be a reverse tragedy -something like this don't exist, at least term-wise-. I mean by Virgil's-CC's guidence Dante-Lelouch travels from Hell to Heaven to reach to their salvation-ideal world that their Beatrice-Nunally emboides- wishes for....
Baw... Forgive me for these scattered thoughts... and don't laugh at me :D