Medusa

The old Greek myth of Medusa, on of the three Gorgons, tells about the unfortunate story of this beautiful woman who, out of vengeance and jealousy of a goddess, was transformed into a monster. Snake slithering hair and a gaze that would turn anybody into stone with a simple look, her face was hypnotizing yet troubling every human standing next to her. Medusa's face is a danger. It paralyzes, it makes you blind, if you dare to stare at her. As frightening as fascinating. Medusa is the perfect…

(Beauvoir 1) The contemplation of women as other specie accommodates men to consider her as a less important being. The attitude of man is not based on equality, it’s a way to dehumanize woman on the whole. The French feminist Cixous in “The Laugh of the Medusa” has talked about the dualism of western thought which revolves around man/woman. This dualism is not based on equality as man is the superior half who is foretold to subordinate women. Maugham’s men in the stories are trying to…

Professor Allen Comp 1 26 November 2017 Medusa: Beauty Turned to Savage Monster Many tales have been told for centuries about the dreaded and frightening creature that went by the name of Medusa of Gorgon. Over the years this Gorgon creature took the form of a classical Greek mythological woman with serpents for hair who possessed the ability to turn her enemies to stone from a simple glare. Although true, there is much more to this tale including exactly what drove Medusa to become such a…

In “The Laugh of the Medusa” French feminist Hélène Cixous writes about “écriture féminine” and invite women to write about themselves and to reclaim their bodies. She takes into account psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s terms but disagrees with his idea of men being more valuable than women because they have a penis. She also opposes that there is a typical woman and argues that all women have “individual constitutions” (876). Many feminists as Cixous criticize Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual…

The painting I choice is called My Medusa and was made by Randy Kirksey. The painting is one of the few paintings at the Merced Multicultural Art Center in Merced that were not digital prints which already made this painting pop to my eyes. This paint is a oil painting and a two dimensional painting on canvas. This work is a fairly new painting as My Medusa was made just one year ago in 2015. I just absolutely love Greek Mythology so I had to write about this painting. Once I saw the familiar…

Nasser Alshareef Dr. Jason DePolo ENGL 755.001 30 March 2016 What is the Medusa? Introduction The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality; a great deal of women have been taught this saying and they feel it is deeply true. Helene Cixous, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, apparently agrees with the aforementioned saying by the time she wrote The Laugh of the Medusa. Cixous commences by constructing her credibility with being one of the…

Reading some of the essays in “The Medusa and the Snail”, were really hard to understand what Lewis Thomas was trying to say. The book as a whole talked about a variety of topics that included Thomas’ view on connectedness, death, health, the healthcare system, the advancement of science and more. There were essays that I understood well as it opened my mind about life and those around me. These essays are, “The Deacon’s Masterpiece”, “On Committees”, and “Notes on Punctuation”. To begin,…

stillness as everything goes on without you. By entwining the tragic myth of Medusa into her work, Louise Bogan creates a sense of loneliness and abandonment that the narrator feels in her poem titled “Medusa.” Through the title of the poem, Medusa, there is the feeling of dread and foreboding. The story of Medusa is very well known as it is about a woman who insulted a goddess and for her punishment the goddess turned Medusa from a very beautiful woman to a hideous looking monster with snakes…

their antagonists, while simultaneously exploring purity and morality through the protagonist duo. They do this in adventures that take them away from the central icon of power, then toward it for the finale – the ziggurat blows up in Metropolis, and MEDUSA is blown up in Mortal Engines. Symbolism like this is what I aim to explore in this essay, accompanied by themes, comparisons, key differences, settings, pacing, and more. P1 – Discussing the filmic techniques and their explanatory gap…

Eva Timat Medusa, transgender, and former banker claims to be the first and only person to have her nose and ears modified to resemble a dragon. Tiamat with her forked tongues, scales (on her body), green eyes and horned forehead calls herself as the 'Dragon Lady.' Eva Timat Medusa, 55, a former banker was born as Richard Hernandez in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA. Eva Timat Medusa was born as Richard Hernandez in Maricopa County, Arizona. Richard was formerly a white collar employee who…