Many years ago there was a beautiful women called Medusa. She lived in a place called Athens in Greece. She was a very kind and she obeyed her Greek gods and goddesses. There were many pretty girls there, Medusa was one of them. Every single day Medusa always boasted about her self. She says to other people she is the most prettiest out of everyone in the whole wide world. On Sunday, Medusa told the miller that her skin is more beautiful then fresh white snow. On Monday, she babbled the cobbler that her hair is brighter than the sun. On Tuesday, she commented the blacksmith's son that her eyes are greener than Aegean sea. On Wednesday, she boasted to the public that her lips are redder than the reddest rose in the world. When Medusa wasn't busy she would boast about her …show more content…
Until one day Medusa and her friends went to the Parthenon. It was Medusa's first time going to the Parthenon. The Parthenon was the biggest temple in Greece. In the Parthenon was the goddess of wisdom and that was Athena. There was statues of most of the gods and goddesses in the Greek culture. All the people who went there obeyed Athena, all except Medusa. Medusa saw all the statues and she whispered "Who ever did this statue did do a good job but it would look better if I was the statues." Every picture she saw she said that the person did a good job but she would look better in the picture and she is so delicate. When Medusa reached the altar she sighed happily and said, "My this is a beautiful temple. It is a shame it is wasted on Athena for I am much prettier than she is, perhaps one day people will build an even grander temple to my beauty." Then Medusa's friend grew pale. The priestesses heard what Medusa said and they gasped. The roomer went really quickly through the whole temple and everyone started to leave. Everyone knew Athena will get angry if anyone compared her to someone
Medusa contains life-saving information for women that is sometimes needed in order to survive (Culpepper, p. 23). Culpepper then goes on to write about her own experience of “Experiencing [Her] Gorgon Self” when she was attacked in her home. Instead of allowing the attack to occur, the Gorgon within her took over with rage and fury to shove the man back outside (p. 23). After the attack, Culpepper knew that something else had embodied her during this moment. As she looks in the mirror, she knows what she sees: the Medusa!
In ancient Greece, women lacked many of the fundamental rights held by men. Medea feels that this is unjust. These feelings are shown on page 195 when Medea states “...we must pay a great dowry to a husband who will be the tyrant of our bodies; and there is another fearful hazard: whether we shall get a good man or a bad. For separations bring disgrace on the woman and it is not possible to renounce one’s husband…” After being rejected by the one she loved, she beings to question the morals of those around her. She assumes that Greek women are weak and naive for allowing men to treat them this way; allowing men to cast them away at their heart’s content.
Athena was the Greek Goddess of many ideas, but she was famous mostly for her superior wisdom, her cunning skills in times of war, and her implausible talent for household tasks, such as weaving and pottery. She was celebrated more than any other God in ancient mythology, was the supposed inventor of countless innovations, and her figure gave reason for Greek woman to gain rights long before others of their time. The goddess of war, the guardian of Athens, and the defender of Heroes; Athena’s impact on the lives of Ancient Greeks is outstanding.
Some explanations actually see Perseus and Medusa as being symbolic. Some claim that Perseus symbolized the reason and good in our souls and that Medusa symbolized the bad and evil desires that transform reason and wisdom to stone in people. They say that she was very ungodly. Because of that she served as a warning against people misusing the gifts that God graciously gives us or dishonoring God by our pride. Medusa was very proud of her beauty and especially her hair. As is explained in the myth, her hair got turned into snakes and she would turn anyone to stone
Another, more recent version of Medusa’s story sets her as once being a beautiful woman with shining hair and a beauty that many said rivaled Athena’s. She was a priestess/handmaiden in Athena’s temple. Poseidon, god ...
By acknowledging that she is beautiful, she shows that she isn’t someone who is low in self-confidence. It also shows that she isn’t surprised to know that Troilus has fallen in love with her, but rather it is something that migh...
...eable quality in a woman is her beauty. In addition, Duffy makes the protagonist annihilate her husband even though in the original myth, Medusa was decapitated, thereby challenging the speculations that a characteristic of women is to be defend less and insubstantial, dating back to ancient times, by showing that women too are vengeful conquerors.
The tragic play Medea is a struggle between reason and violence. Medea is deliberately portrayed as not a ‘normal woman’, but excessive in her passions. Medea is a torment to herself and to others; that is why Euripides shows her blazing her way through life leaving wreckage behind her. Euripides has presented Medea as a figure previously thought of exclusively as a male- hero. Her balance of character is a combination of the outstanding qualities of Achilles and Odysseus.
In her first speech Medea wins over the chorus by a plea to solidarity in the face of women's victimization by a male-dominated society, and this response by the chorus is an essential step in the poet's paradoxical task of winning sympathy and understanding for a mother who kills her children. But as that first speech itself indicates, Medea both is and is not a typical (Greek) woman: she is a foreig...
Ironically, Medea’s actions are similar to a man when she takes charge of her marriage, living situation, and family life when she devices a plan to engulf her husband with grief. With this in mind, Medea had accepts her place in a man’s world unti...
"Medea: Historical Context." Drama for Students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1998. eNotes.com. January 2006. 1 November 2010.
A. A myth that I was told as a child is one version of the myth of Medusa and Athena. There was a beautiful maiden named Medusa who lived in Athens, Greece. She was very proud of her beauty, it was all she ever spoke or thought about. Medusa would also admire herself in a mirror for quite a long time. One day, she visited the largest temple of the goddess Athena, named the Parthenon. The temple was filled with statues and paintings of Athena. Medusa then told her friends that the sculptures and paintings should have been of her since she was prettier than Athena. Medusa was admiring her reflection from the large bronze doors, when suddenly, she was looking at Athena instead of herself. Athena was furious with Medusa, she then tells
In the beginning, Medusa was a beautiful young priestess in the temple of Athena, whose actions led to her fall into the hands of various gods. The piece is meant to communicate and explain to the audience the hardship she faced through the good, the bad and the downright tragic leading to her destruction. From losing her love, her friend and even herself.
Every Sunday, Medusa bragged to the miller that her skin was more beautiful than icing. On Mondays, she told the palace guards that her hair glowed brighter than the sun. On Tuesdays, she commented to the blacksmith’s son that her eyes were greener than her