Post by mcans345 on Feb 5, 2019 13:46:01 GMT -5
HADES
Why do we build the wall,
My children, my children,
Why do we build the wall?
CHORUS
Why do we build the wall?
We build the wall to keep us free.
That's why we build the wall;
We build the wall to keep us free.
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In the original myth, Eurydice literally dies and goes to the Underworld—she has no say in the matter.
In Hadestown, though, she makes a choice.
What she chooses—Hades, and the security he promises behind the Wall—is a devil’s bargain. It doesn’t exactly cost her life, but it is a kind of death: of the heart, of the soul. By walling others out, the citizens of Hadestown wall themselves in—to hell.
Eurydice quickly regrets her decision.
In the original myth, Eurydice literally dies and goes to the Underworld—she has no say in the matter.
In Hadestown, though, she makes a choice.
What she chooses—Hades, and the security he promises behind the Wall—is a devil’s bargain. It doesn’t exactly cost her life, but it is a kind of death: of the heart, of the soul. By walling others out, the citizens of Hadestown wall themselves in—to hell.
Eurydice quickly regrets her decision.