Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 82 No. 1, 2012.
Original scientific paper
The Allegory of the Journey of Obedience. Posvetiliste Abramovo (Abraham's Sacrifice) by Mavro Vetranovic
Dolores Grmača
orcid.org/0000-0002-6300-0775
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Mystery play of Abraham's sacrifice (Posvetiliste Abramovo) by a Benedictine monk from Dubrovnik, Mavro Vetranovic (1482 - 1576), and the most productive of Croatian Renaissance poets attracted attention in literary history because of the active role attributed to Sara. This paper focusses on the allegorical complexity of that sacrificial drama. Two allegorical journeys shaped by their boundaries of birth are paralleled: male - described by an allegory infactis as a real journey filled with danger - and the female - shaped by internal experiences and hypersensitive woes in the space of allegory in verbis. We see that both journeys are allegorically connected with the apotheosis of obedience which opens prefigurative parallelisms: Abraham - Father, Isaac - Christ, Sara - Mary. Special attention is dedicated to Abraham's blessing to his son's willingness to offer Himself to death and the reasons for the concentration of dramatic agon of Sara's character. The article concludes that the dual allegorical journey of obedience obliges the recipients emotionally stronger and this achieves are catharsis of the community.
Keywords
obedience; Abraham; Mavro Vetranovic; mystery play; allegorical journey
Hrčak ID:
79235
URI
Publication date:
28.3.2012.
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