THE JOURNEY TO THE CENTER - ȘARPELE, MIRCEA ELIADE
THE JOURNEY TO THE CENTER - ȘARPELE, MIRCEA ELIADE

Summary/Abstract: In this study, we intent to present Dorina's initial journey from the text Şarpele by Mircea Eliade, a journey which will lead to a cosmic wedding. Fantastic text built under the concept of time, allow us to enter into the unreal, in the dream. Throughout the text we see how two weddings are woven: a terrestrial wedding, and a cosmic wedding. The entry into the forest during the night is like the penetration of the neophyte from the primitive people, from the moment when he leaves his mother being reborn in another condition to the moment when he will know coincidentia oppositorum. The group enters the forest, where it comes into contact with the unconscious. The central symbol of the text is the snake, which tries to draw Dorina to the island. It's a place which becomes a return to the origin, to the center. The text is built a under the coincidentia oppositorum theory.

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