“Ein Haus, Ein Leib und Ein Verderben!”. Dinamiche matrimoniali e ideologia dell’amore romantico nella trilogia "Das goldene Vliess" di Franz Grillparzer

Franz Grillparzer’s Das goldene Vließ (The Golden Fleece, 1821) may be interpreted as a meditation on the structures and implications of love. Composed during a period marked by profound historical upheavals that reshaped cultural and ideological paradigms, the trilogy engages with the emergent bourgeois conception of “romantic love”—that is, the affective bond between a man and a woman culminating in a love-based marriage and the establishment of an independent household. This ideological framework simultaneously presupposed and reinforced sharply differentiated social roles for men and women. Within this context, the figures of Jason and Medea appear to interrogate, and ultimately destabilize, the very premises of this bourgeois ideal.