This seems to have led to the use of the term- "red carpet treatment". While the red carpet itself does not appear to have been anything special as a matter of quality, nevertheless since it was used in connection with first class passengers, it came to be identified with high social status. "In 1902, New York used plush crimson carpets to direct people boarding the trains." Later, the carpet was tied to the railroads. president, in the 1820’s, would disembark from a boat, presumably via a red carpet. According to Henderson, there is documentary evidence that James Monroe, the fifth U.S. Whatever happened at the end, the first “red carpet” is a long way from the Academy Awards and the Cannes Film Festival. "Let all the ground be red / Where those feet pass and Justice, dark of yore, / Home light him to the hearth he looks not for."Īccording to Henderson, Clytemnestra “rolls out the crimson carpet to convince him to walk into his death.” As Page sees it, “Clytemnestra had grim proof of concept that people will follow a red strip of textile.” The end reminds one of a Spaghetti Western-either Clytemnestra murders her husband, in the bath no less, or her lover kills Agamemnon. While Clytemnestra has carried on her own acts of infidelity, she also has the burden of the memory that Agamemnon had sacrificed their 15-year-old daughter so, with the help of the gods, he could benefit from the winds necessary to sail. When he comes back he's in love with Cassandra and brings his concubine home with him." He's away for a long time, and they both find significant others. "Agamemnon goes away to fight (in the Trojan Wars) and leaves his wife Clytemnestra at home. Page notes that Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, talks about a "floor of crimson broideries to spread / For the King's path." The question is why the reference to the “floor of crimson broideries.” Page brings the view of Amy Henderson, historian emeritus at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, who observes that. The literary use of the term goes back to the Greek playwright Aeschylus, in his play, " Agamemnon", written around 458 BC. ![]() But its modern day incarnation, synonymous with wealth, glamor and stardom, is about as far removed from its beginnings as you can imagine. “Arriving with a sting in its tail, the red carpet has deadly origins. The dictionary tells us that a “red-carpet” is a “long, red floor covering that is put down for an important guest to walk on when he or she visits somewhere and receives a special official welcome, or a special welcome of this type.“ With the Cannes Film Festival 2017 coming to an end, with its own “red carpet”, let's take a Kat pause to consider how the notion of the red carpet has come to be imbued with distinctive meaning, both in its two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms.Īs described by Thomas Page on cnn.com on May 26th, in his article-“Greek tragedy and railways: An unexpected history of the red carpet”, the “red carpet” has a history reaching back to ancient times. A carpet is a carpet is a carpet-unless it is a “red carpet.”
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