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    that women are inferior to men in society and inequalities between the two genders exist. The concept of feminism is deeply engraved in Euripides’s tragic play Medea. Jason, the male protagonist, has abandoned his wife, Medea, along with their two children and sproted an affair with Glauce, the daughter of the king of Corinth. Jason plans to remarry Glauce to gain access to the throne. However, his decision angers Medea, who has sacrificed her family to be with him. Out of rage, she executes a…

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    Medea did everything for Jason and then he let a bombshell out that he was leaving her for Creon’s daughter. She was devastated because she loved him so much and he cheated on her. Medea went out for revenge and she was mad women did not have the same rights as a man in a marriage. In ancient Greek marriage had different concepts than marriage today. In ancient Greek your parents arranged their daughter’s marriage and today a girl gets to pick who she marries. In ancient Greek girls married at…

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    From Shahryar murdering a new wife every night, to Jason trying to think for Medea, and Eve ignorantly taking a bite out of the fruit of evil, women have always been painted as the creators of disaster. Still, time and time again women have been able to counteract this trivial mindset, and come out victorious…

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    gladly to die for him?” (Euripides, 6) Medea has many of these qualities, but in a completely different way. She loves, in that she completely devoted her life to Jason and his quest. She cares for her children, even if it means killing them to spare them a life of shame.…

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    loves her two sons, doesn’t accept any other option besides killing them. The murder, or sacrifice in Medea’s eyes, was all in favor of Medea achieving the revenge on Jason she so desperately seeks. Well aware that the sacrifice will not bring Jason and Medea back together, the idea of the grief and sadness it will bring upon Jason is enough for Medea to be convinced. Medea, who loves her sons, will feel the same grief and sadness, but her extremist ways towards achieving her desires supersede…

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    I examined the eponymous character’s monologue from Euripides’s dramatic play “Medea”, first performed in Athens in the fourth century B.C. This work serves to lay out the reasons for a woman in Ancient Greek society to resent her role in it. In discussing marriage, it speaks of the “excess of wealth” or dowry needed to be provided by a woman’s family in order for her to marry, the social cost of not marrying, and the husband’s control over his wife’s body. It then discusses a woman’s need to…

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    Catherine de Medici was an Italian-born, French queen who became very powerful and even more controversial during her time at the helm of France. Orphaned as an infant, used as a pawn in her family's vicious power games, saddled with an unfaithful husband, and forced to suffer the untimely deaths of several of her children, Catherine managed to maintain control of the true power of the French throne in an effort to protect her family and preserve her birthright. Her methods of doing so,…

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    Summary of Revenge “Revenge” is a Television Series produced by Mike Kelley, Marty Bowen, and Wyck Godfrey. Emily Thorne rents back a beach home she was raised in as a child by her father. The home is adjacent to the mansion of an affluential family, the Graysons. Emily is actually Amanda Clarke whose father was framed for treason by the Graysons when she was a kid. Her father was sentenced to life imprisonment after the trial and was murdered in prison by associates of the people that framed…

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    The book Glass Sword is about a girl named Mare who finds herself on a deadly path trying to be someone she isn't. As Mare escaped from the prison, Maven, who she thought loved her but turned on her, put her in; she found herself debating what to do. She needed to save the newbloods, who were people like her with a power, yet Red blooded, but she knew all of their lives would be at risk. First, she gathered up some of her friends at Tuck, the islands where all of the Red bloods were hiding from…

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    by authors, who are most definitely not young adults, and social change in society. Sung by Lee Hi, Rose is about how love is like a rose. It sounds cheesy but it is actually true, in a sense. The petals of a rose represent the happiness and beauty of love, it is also the first thing a person sees when they come across a rose. However, the thorns represent pain and the darker side of love. The thorns are overlooked in favor of the petals, but in order to have a healthy love, both the petals…

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