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and then UGH okay because lady of the underground i was under the impression that she was interacting with the workers and whatnot like making the cracks in the wall that orpheus was about to break down but there's no one on stage. the only people on stage are the musicians, hermes, and persephone. none of the workers are there. she's singing to herself. do you understand do you get it?? especially with why do we build the wall right before that because I didn't realize persephone was in that song?? and the whole time she looks terrified. she Doesn't want to be here she Doesn't want to engage with this (my mom compared the song to being at a maga rally and she was 100% correct) but she does anyway, perhaps because she's forced to. and the look of heartbreak when eurydice appears; the way eurydice is confused and put off at first, but it doesn't take long for her to learn the words and join in????

eurydice and persephone is a whole other thing because I never realized how much of a relationship they had. like persephone is quick to be friendly with her, and eurydice is enthralled by that attention. but then during chant when persephone is singing about like the earth dying and people starving she's looking at eurydice walking by. she's looking at her and she looks heartbroken, she's reaching out to her but she can't reach her because she's not there. she watches as the fates strip eurydice of everything she has, and then that look of despair changes of one to fear as hades' eyes land on eurydice as he declares he'll find someone else who will be grateful. and I know that like flowers can be like an analogy for sa but I really felt it during that part. not so much in songbird vs rattlesnake? but definitely during the end of chant like AJHVSGDJAS.

and then like I said when eurydice enters the underworld persephone looks shaken. because she knows eurydice, and she knows orpheus, and- idk man. imagine being in hell and someone you know shows up, but you know they can't leave and you know they're soon to become a shell of who they once were. like. yeah

“In the coldest time of year, why is it so hot down here?”

“In the darkest time of year, why is it so bright down here?”

He was trying to create summer in the Hadestown for her (and obviously for himself and his work, but you get the point)

He knows she loves the world above, and whenever she comes she brings summer and sun and the joys of life, so he was trying to create those same conditions in Hadestown, hoping she’d like it, appreciate what he was doing, and want to stay longer

It also probably reminded him of her, with her warmth and brightness gone when she’s above “lover you were gone so long, lover I was lonesome” “think of it as my desire for you”

He’s trying to artificially create some of the gifts and love she brings to the world above that she loves so much, but he’s not doing it just for her, and he can’t recreate the real world and replicate nature

“It ain’t right and it ain’t natural”

“Did you think I’d be impressed with this neon necropolis?”

Instead of it being a symbol of his love, to her it’s become a symbol of his obsession and his greed. He is trying to copy everything that comes from nature and Persephone’s presence as a goddess, but it’s almost a bastardization or mockery of her nature, recreated in a way he can control

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