Baudelaire'in trajedisi

Abstract

Not wanting to grow his flowers in the land cultivated by his predecessors and his contemporaries, Baudelaire creates, in his collection entitled The Flowers of Evil, an aesthetic of evil based on the dogma of original sin of the Christian-Catholic faith. In this context, he builds his poetry on the tension and tears created by the repulsive forces of ambivalent postulations such as Good/Evil, Sin/ Virtue, Spleen/Ideal, God/Satan, Heaven/Hell, Heaven/Earth, Elevation/Fall, Aspiration to Infinity / Death. This building is the thing that forms the essence of Baudelaire’s tragic. In this work, we examine the dynamics that trigger the tragic fall of Baudelaire’s poetic adventure hero. In addition, we attempt to shed light on whether the evil impregnated in his poetry as an aesthetic motif can be considered a tragic fault. If the fault is certain, what is the proper punishment for this fault, and how is this punishment is reflected in his poems on the symbolic, literary, imaginary and fictional levels? Our work also aims to answer these questions. We also try to identify the relationship between the main components of Baudelaire’s mystic and the tragic; we highlight in particular the relationship between the tragic and the spleen, the oppression of time, the consciousness of death, God and Satan. Likewise, we underline the function of the woman, in the tragic fall of the poet, who pushes him to the abyss of sin by throwing at him, with the games of Satan, the bait of “beauty” embodied in the female body. Above all, recalling that the misfortune that the tragic hero will undergo following the transgression of divine law is inevitable, we underline that in the case of Baudelaire in particular, and the case of all humanity in general, misfortune exists from the start; which allows us to emphasize the fact that the conflict of the poet, his irreverence, his violation of the law, his revolt against the divine order all originate from this predestination of man. This very marked case, which shows that the poet is already in a downfall, will allow us to understand how he manages to interweave his personal tragedy and the tragedy of humanity; his punishment is, in fact the punishment of all humanity, and it is a somewhat ironic punishment; to be doomed to do good in this global abyss whose reason of being is evil.