The Seducer's Diary Symbols, Allegory and Motifs

by Soren Kierkegaard

The Seducer's Diary Symbols, Allegory and Motifs

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Grave

Cordelia anticipates, “Then your (Johannes) love for me will rise again from its grave; then I will love you as always.” The figurative grave portrays the non-existent love between Cordelia and Johannes. Johannes’s adoration for Cordelia has expired; hence, Cordelia cannot relish it.

Passion

Johannes is keen to repress his thrilling passion: “Roar away, you wild forces, roar away, you powers of passion; even if your waves hurl foam toward the clouds, you still are not able to pile yourselves up over my head.” Johannes endeavors to tame his passion so that it would not disrupt him from his core objective, which is to be a faultless seducer.

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