Eurydice

What does Eurydice believe that weddings represent for fathers and daughters in the play, Eurydice?

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When Orpheus ties a string around Eurydice's ring finger, the couple decide they are engaged because she is wearing a permanent reminder of her love for him. She is devoted to him, but she still contends weddings are for fathers and daughters, a symbol of they day they stop being married to each other. Her filial bond is more important to her than her marital one. Even after her father and she walk as though they are in a wedding processional when she reunites with Orpheus in the underworld, she eventually chooses to stay with her father. When The Lord of the Underworld demands that Eurydice marry him, a marriage to a man whom one does not love is portrayed as a symbolic death.

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