This may be a controversial take, idk, but I genuinely do not blame Eurydice Hadestown at ALLL for taking the deal from Hades. Imagine being a woman in pseudo kind of industrial revolution kind of Ancient Greece and specifically asking the guy who wants to marry you āhey, how are you going to put food on the tableā and he says all this stuff about how the trees are going to bend their fruits to the ground and the birds are going to make your bed, and you believe him because you want to believe him and because he clearly means it with all his heart and clearly is gifted in a supernatural way but then, lo and behold, itās fucking winter and whereās the fucking food? Like actually that would be pretty fucking frustrating. Like obviously itās a reflection of Orpheusās youth and naivety that he makes those promises to her and he didnāt intentionally mislead her or anything, and obviously he was right about the song, he just didnāt finish it soon enough, but itās just very much reminding me of the Mitski song Because Dreaming Costs Money, My Dear. All things considered, Eurydice was very patient with him, and she did believe in him, but like the Fates point out there is a very stark reality in starvation. Iām not even really responding or arguing against anything Iāve seen Iām just sort of thinking about her.
