Medea

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,…

The bald eagle, Nike, the structure of government buildings and libraries, what do these things have in common you ask? The answer is quite simply that they were all influenced from something in Greek Mythology. Greek mythology and Greek culture in general have had a major impact on American culture. “You can’t walk to any U.S city without seeing something that has been influenced by the Greeks,” says Chiron, a character from one of Rick Riordan’s, popular writer of the Percy Jackson books…

1)Equal Opportunity Act of 1972 enforces federal laws prohibiting workplace discrimination. The EEOC was created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The employment section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, known as Title VII, prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, and religion, and also prohibits employers from retaliating against any employee who exercises his or her rights under Title VII. Today, the EEOC enforces federal anti-discrimination statutes, and provides…

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…

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…

Euripides’s Bacchae is a tragedy about a mother killing her son. While the plot of it is very simple, the thematic implication is what makes this play so fascinating. One of the themes in this tragedy is one about free will. Free will, or the absence of it, is a catalyst for the end result of the tragedy. Two very important mortal characters in this play, King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agave, are both stripped of their free will and are manipulated by Dionysus, the god of wine and…

The variety of characters in The Táin provide examples of what the ancient Irish defined as heroes. Each character was different and represented ideas and people groups that could be found at the time. Medb may be an unlikely first choice for a hero, but she held an important purpose in the novel by serving as a women who had a substantial amount of power and was not afraid to get her hands dirty. Cúchulainn was the hero that all of Ireland wants to remember, fighting a battle against an entire…

by having a woman, named Medea, triumph over a man, Euripides shatters the concept of differences between genders for the first time. Euripides’ description of Medea is that of a clever sorceress who will never stop to achieve her goal. At the beginning of the story, Medea is depicted as a woman who is madly in love with a man whose name is Jason, “ Then my mistress Medea would not have sailed to the fortress of Iolcus' land, her heart battered by love for Jason”. Medea, madly in love with…

customary family of women. Medea ends up terminating that future and ties, she killed her children, which in act show that she refuses to natural action of women. Medea is determine to get revenge on Jason, but Euripides makes Medea destroy all habitual characteristics of women. Medea is alone and has power, the need for a woman of this time period not to have a family is probalbly unheard. Medea undermines this need for a husband and infact she destroys the man she loves. Medea provides the…

Is Medea a feminist hero, or a sexist construct of a male playwright? Contention: Medea is neither a feminist hero nor a sexist construct of a male playwright. While it is possible to interpret her revenge as a representation of female equality (especially in relation to power, influence etc), essentially her revenge is just that; a personal vengeance and not a championing of an ideological cause. Thus, these two are misreadings as in they overlook the fact that Medea 's gender disadvantage is…