Abstract
Life is often presented as a line (a path, a road) or sometimes as a circle. But it has also been regarded more imaginatively as a labyrinth or maze. To some, maze patterning might be too restrictive for any broad or deep symbolic purposes. As the 18th-century Lord Kames put it, speaking primarily of garden mazes, "It is a mere conceit, like that of composing verses in the shape of an axe or an egg. The walks and hedges may be agreeable, but in the form of a labyrinth, they serve no end but to puzzle … ." A contemporary writer on the concept of the labyrinth, Robert Rawdon Wilson, suggests a more impressive estate for it: "The complexity that a labyrinth manifest is … that of the mind."
Recommended Citation
Gutierrez, Donald
(1983)
"The Labyrinth as Myth and Metaphor,"
University of Dayton Review: Vol. 16:
No.
3, Article 14.
Available at:
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/udr/vol16/iss3/14
