Symbolism in the Lyrical Drama Pelléas and Mélisande by Claude Debussy
Symbolism in the Lyrical Drama Pelléas and Mélisande by Claude Debussy

Summary/Abstract: Theater has always been, regardless of the aesthetic principles that have governed it from one era to another, an essential projection of the two interfaces of reality: perceptual reality and conceptual or symbolic reality. In connection with reality, whether we are talking about its external form or we are referring to the essence understood as the inner world of the individual (the world of ideas, emotions, feelings, impressions) raises the question of his position towards one or the other. Requesting the principles of theatrical naturalism, symbolist aesthetics urges us to reconsider the problem of interpretation and to ask whether its purpose consists in radiographic illustration of perceptual reality, mirroring the visible world from an authorial perspective or its true mission to reveal invisible truths that lie in the depths of being. the characters of the drama. The suggestive abilities of music - considered by symbolists an ideal model of expression - will provide them with a model but also a tool for probing and revealing unseen energies and truths.

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