#culture note

[madamemachikonew]

Small parallels between Dottore and Mozart's Don Giovanni (analysis)

[Contains 6.6 spoilers under the cut]

Now that the dust is settling in my mind after the AQ, I can analyse a striking parallel in imagery in the Irminsul finale.

Dottore and the segments appears (to me) to be a direct reference to the finale of Don Giovanni, where the errant and unrepentant sinner is dragged to hell for his hubris. Once gone, the chorus rejoices with a cautionary moral lesson:

'Such is the end of the evildoer: the death of a sinner always reflects his life'.

Although Don Giovanni is a consummate philanderer, Dottore too uses human bodies as an infinite disposable resource for his own gratification, albeit intellectual. Imagine the 'Catalogue Aria', except instead of listing romantic conquests, it's all the test subjects, their respective qualities and virtues, Dottore's preferences depending on the experiment / season, and the results they've yielded over the centuries with varying degrees of success.

Don Giovanni is warned on several occasions that his path will only lead to downfall. But rather than change his ways, he goads Fate; inviting, provoking and taunting it. He almost challenges it not to deliver. He literally invites the ghost of someone he killed to dinner. Then, even in the face of certain death - and the ghost of the man he murdered in cold blood, he is defiantly unrepentant for his actions. Then is dragged down into the flames; the culmination of his past sins being responsible for his downfall.

Sound familiar?

The music is chilling. Imagine the Commendatore singing 'Il Dottoooore, be thee invited...'

Where they differ is that, in the moment, Dottore initially struggles, but then decides not to resist embracing a new form. Which makes me wonder if that really is the last we'll see of him.

Anyway, go and listen to Don Giovanni by Mozart. It's a banger.

[i-am-a-fire-hazard]

Funny cultural experience if you are sick and ask for soup Americans will ALWAYS get you chicken noodle 10 times out of 10. Lol.

[kelimindex-blog]

kelinia

traveler (lit. 'people there')

origin of the given name Kaylinia

cultural context: kelinia has a connotation of someone being away from home, outside of their homeland, largely because of its contrast with the word for homeland. 

root: keli "people" + nia "there" or "another place"