Medusa

In the poems “Medusa” by Duffy and “The Laboratory” by Browning both authors explore the theme of jealousy and its destructive nature on people and society as a whole. In Duffy’s poem “Medusa” she critiques society on its treatment towards women, demonstrating how those without beauty are only corrupted with jealousy and how this behavior has survived through the ages. While Duffy focuses on the impacts of jealousy on the individual Browning looks towards its impacts on society, and its power to twist good people into those who would do anything for personal gain. Browning portrays the speaker as deceptive and bent on revenge. As the speaker observes the poison being made she “(gazes) thro’ …. faint smokes curling whitely”. The first image…

black with multiple shapes contained in a transparent box on a pedestal, but when finally reaching the art sculpture, I felt this sense of connection. The hairs of my body stood up, and suddenly I became stunned at what I saw. I was staring at the Head of Medusa. The expression on her face, and the figure itself, is far from the original story. The Head of Medusa is a very interesting sculpture, not only because it is Medusa…

50 Shades of Medusa Buckle your seatbelts, motherBLEEPers, because in three short pages I’m going to teach you a thing that I only learned myself two hours ago. So sit down, shut up, and enjoy the experience of my four AM Red Bull induced, self hatred fueled writing extravaganza. This is the story of Medusa. She suffered many injustices in her life and the misfortunes continued to pile up. Everytime she tried to escape one misfortune another would come upon her. Despite her best efforts to…

Théodore Géricault Le Radeau de La Méduse (the raft of the medusa) French Romantic artist (1798-1863) oil painting Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 - 26 January 1824) is an influential French painter and lithographer. The Raft of the Medusa is known for his most famous piece, which is an oil painting on canvas completed during 1818 to 1819, when he was in the age of 27. The painting depicts the scene of the aftermath when a shipwreck occured, this is referred to a real event happened on…

Title: Perseus Quest Theme: perseverance Concept: will be based on a myth, Perseus and Medusa. It would be a game that relies on moral choices to progress through the story. The main character will be Perseus, and to reach certain areas, vanquish enemies, or progress, you must rely on choices that will become available once you reach a certain point/marker. It would make for a compelling game since you will be the one to influence Perseus to make moral decisions within the game. The game will…

Zeus. Percy Jackson is a twelve year old boy who lives with his mother sally and his father is poseidon: God of the seas. Both of the characters journeys ares Quest and return. They ways these change over time is that Perseus is sent off on a quest to kill Medusa and slay a sea monster and in the end Perseus returns home to his mother on the island.The way this modernized is that percy is…

requests the head of the gorgon Medusa to be brought back to him, in which Perseus receives his call to adventure. Medusa holds the power to turn anyone that looks her in the face to stone. Currently unaware of the king’s true intentions, he accepts the challenge. The refusal stage gets skipped over since Perseus does not hesitate to go. The next step in the journey, encouragement from a mentor, begins when Perseus encounters Athena and Herma. The pair agree to help because all descend from…

In the times of Greek mythology and epic hero writing, were epic heroes all the same?From the Greek epics The Odyssey by Homer and Perseus by Edith Hamilton, the reader can find out. In The Odyssey, epic hero Odysseus faces many challenges and must use larger than life strength and courage on his odyssey home to his family in Ithaca after the Trojan War. Perseus is a story about the demigod Perseus who goes on a journey, with the help of god Hermes and goddess Athena, in order to kill the…

kingdom Animalia, phylum Cnidaria, subphylum medusozoa. The subphylum is further classified into three groups of jellyfish; Scyphozoa which are true jellyfish, Cubozoa are box jellyfish and Staurozoa which are stalked jellyfish. Jellyfish are present on Ocean surfaces and the deep sea. True jellyfish can only be found in salty water though there are some species of jellyfish present in fresh water like the Craspedacusta sowerbii species. Jellyfish are not considered true fish as they are…

happen in the myths. One of the stories that is littered with changing forms that appears in the text is the tale of Medusa. It has been depicted in various different ways over time, but this paper will focus on comparing the representation of Peter Paul Rubens’ The Head of Medusa to the retelling in Ovid. Ovid tells the story slightly out of order, since he is recounting it from the perspective of the one who slayed Medusa, Perseus. To put the tale chronologically, Medusa was once a beautiful…