HADESTOWN theories

[Alba_rios01]

Posted: 7/26/19 at 1:42pm

So here are a couple of theories about Hadestown. Tell me what you guys think.

-The Fates aren´t actual characters with personality and all that. They´re the others characters consciences. They don´t give any new information to anyone, they just twist what the characters already know. They´re the doubt and the dark sides of them. We can see this in songs such as When the chips are down, Word to the wise or Doubt comes in.

-The story is a cycle that is constantly repeating (Hermes says that they sing that love song again and again). I think that Hermes knows this and he witnesses everytime the story repeats. And he tries to change it everytime by helping Orpheus and warning him about the storm and all that. And he says "maybe it (the tale) will turn out this time" in Road to hell. And that´s why at the end of the musical (Road to hell reprise) Eurydice is there again asking if anyone´s got a match.

[haterobics]

Posted: 7/26/19 at 1:45pm

Alba_rios01 said: "-The story is a cycle that is constantly repeating"

Isn't this literally how the story ends?

[Valentina3]

Posted: 7/26/19 at 2:11pm

Neither of these are theories. They are very much in the text itself.

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 7/26/19 at 2:34pm

I’ve heard a theory that Hades and Persephone are actually Orpheus’ parents. Listening to the full cast recording today, I can hear snippets that may lead one to come to this conclusion. Thoughts?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/26/19 at 2:41pm

Valentina3 said: "Neither of these are theories. They are very much in the text itself"

 

Yes, this exactly. 

 

[Impossible2]

Posted: 7/26/19 at 2:46pm

GreasedLightning said: "I’ve heard a theory that Hades and Persephone are actually Orpheus’ parents. Listening to the full cast recording today, I can hear snippets that may lead one to come to this conclusion. Thoughts?"

No x

[Rainah]

Posted: 7/26/19 at 3:27pm

It literally says he's the son of a muse. In myths, usually Calliope, muses of poetry, eloquence, and singing.

[JBroadway]

Posted: 7/26/19 at 6:18pm

The OP is confusing "analysis" with "theories" 

[schubox]

Posted: 7/27/19 at 3:11am

Rainah said: "It literally says he's the son of a muse. In myths, usually Calliope, muses of poetry, eloquence, and singing."

Yep, and his dad is either Apollo or a Thracian king named Oeagrus