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Commentary for "The May Poles and Their Queen".
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Sophie Anne Stott Commentary for "The May Poles and Their Queen". When reading the Greek myth Orpheus, I was immediately struck by the heroism of the central character. Orpheus is the classic male hero, overcoming all obstacles to bring back his beloved Eurydice, only to be eventually thwarted by something even more powerful than his heroism: his own love. Because of the essentially classical, romanticized nature of Orpheus, I felt it would be an ideal source text for a modern-day interpretation. In order to gain a better understanding of the text, I initially adopted, in Stuart Hall's terms, the 'preferred' reading; that is, how the audience are 'meant' to read a text, who they are expected to empathise with and what conclusions they are meant to draw. Applying Greimas's structuralist scheme, I found it easy to identify Orpheus as the 'subject' or, according to Propp's 'spheres of influence', the 'hero'. Orpheus...
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