The dangerous unveiling of Medusa’s body represents the moment when these truths about oppression are revealed and realized by both Medusa as victim and her “victims”, the beholders. This is dangerous unveiling in which something monstrous, something that is not meant to be seen is revealed. The attempts can be easily traced to shield the beholders from Medusan revelations, enforcing patriarchal order by veiling herself from the early truth of oppression.
Similarities of Medusa and Lady Macbeth
As we never come to know the name of Lady Macbeth, was she Catherine, Victoria or Margaret- let us call her Medusa. She may not be the personified wrath of the female but she had the individuality which was never expected by the ever dominating patriarchy. Lady Macbeth is exposed with her variation from recommended female subordination, by her role as catalyst to Macbeth's actions. Lady Macbeth restrains her instincts toward compassion, motherhood, and tenderness — associated with …show more content…
According to the late classical poets, Medusa was once a stunning maiden who was malformed by Athena into a fiend as punishment for making love with Poseidon in her holy temple, which was a violation of a determined ancient custom.
Beth Seelig analyzes Medusa's punishment from the aspect of the crime of having been raped rather than having willingly consented in Athena's temple as an outcome of the goddess' unresolved conflicts with her own father, Zeus. (http://en.wikipedia.org). Still she was punished as it was easy to punish a mortal female but not Poseidon who was a mighty Olympian deity.
Medusa's head, an apparently uncomplicated motif linked to the myth of Perseus, was freed through being severed and cut loose from the bindings by the hero in the remote depths of the
Similarities of Medusa and Lady Macbeth
As we never come to know the name of Lady Macbeth, was she Catherine, Victoria or Margaret- let us call her Medusa. She may not be the personified wrath of the female but she had the individuality which was never expected by the ever dominating patriarchy. Lady Macbeth is exposed with her variation from recommended female subordination, by her role as catalyst to Macbeth's actions. Lady Macbeth restrains her instincts toward compassion, motherhood, and tenderness — associated with …show more content…
According to the late classical poets, Medusa was once a stunning maiden who was malformed by Athena into a fiend as punishment for making love with Poseidon in her holy temple, which was a violation of a determined ancient custom.
Beth Seelig analyzes Medusa's punishment from the aspect of the crime of having been raped rather than having willingly consented in Athena's temple as an outcome of the goddess' unresolved conflicts with her own father, Zeus. (http://en.wikipedia.org). Still she was punished as it was easy to punish a mortal female but not Poseidon who was a mighty Olympian deity.
Medusa's head, an apparently uncomplicated motif linked to the myth of Perseus, was freed through being severed and cut loose from the bindings by the hero in the remote depths of the