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Gimme Shelter: The Dionysian Excess of Rock and Roll

This essay on Dionysian impulses uses the behavior on view in the Rolling Stones documentary Gimme Shelter to explain the nature of the Dionysian, in contrast with the Apollonian. The student describes the display as too far into the Dionysian to please Nietzsche's sense of balance, and also compares The Bacchae, Euripides' tragedy, to the film.
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Bridget's feedback:

"This is off to a good start, and I enjoyed reading about the modern examples through this lens. Your voice comes through in the writing, keeping the reader engaged ("he would have flipped"), and while I notice a number of errors (or typos), I can envision a careful proofreading and revision session that preserves the original energy. Watch out for homonyms and misspellings (site/sight, striped/stripped) that can impact clarity.

Similarly related to clarity, I puzzled over the return to the topic of concerts in the second-to-last paragraph -- consider grouping that discussion earlier, before you move away from the documentary, so the reader more easily and smoothly follows your argument."

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