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A 3 page research paper that discusses how in Nikos Kazantzakis' classic novel Zorba the Greek, two diametrically opposed views of life, the Apollonian (intellectual) and the Dionysian (emotional) perspective, are contrasted. The writer describes how Zorba, a man of the earth who has a zest for life, teaches a bookish friend to appreciate this perspective. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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is down at that point in the story, Zorba never loses his ability to notice beauty and gain solace from it. The narrator, on the other hand, refuses to
look at the stone. This incident exemplifies the differences between the two personalities portrayed in the novel. The narrator of the story demonstrates behavior that fits with what anthropologist Ruth
Benedict (1960) describes as an Apollonian stance toward life, which is typified by behavior that is rooted firmly in the middle of the road, exemplified by moderation, sobriety and restraint.
This manner of living is intellectual. Zorba, on the other hand, is Dionysian in his approach to life, which is typified by exaltation, reveling in all emotional experiences and a
passion in living (Benedict, 1960). Over the course of the narrative, Zorba teaches his friend, the philosophical bookworm, that life should be lived, not simply read about. Kazantzakis
novel was made into a famous film in the 1960s starring actor Anthony Quinn as Zorba (Hobbs, no date). In the book, the narrator is unnamed, since the book consists
of his first person reminisces of his friend, Zorba. However, in the movie adaptation, the narrator is given the name "Basil" (Hobbs, no date). For the purposes of this
report, the name "Basil" will be used to facilitate discussion of the narrators role. Basil is a scholarly, introspective man. When he encounters Zorba and hires him to aid him
in a mining venture on the island of Crete, he realizes intuitively that Zorba has a zest for living that Basil lacks. "Zorba was the man I had sought so
long in vain. A living heart, a large voracious mouth, a great brute soul, not severed from mother earth" (Kazantzakis 13). As this indicates, Basil saw from the beginning that
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