Minotaur

tragic hero in this story, but upon further inspection is becomes clear that she fails the test. Phaedra is the wife of Theseus, and because Theseus is king of Athens, she acts as the queen of Athens. After Theseus heroically vanquished the mythical Minotaur, she travelled with Theseus to be his queen out of gratitude by her father and king of Crete, Minos. At the start of the play, Theseus is not present as he has voluntarily decided to exile after committing murder, as an act of penitence.…

talked about deformation babies result from the consanguinity of the parents. She tried to recall babies who were born with something wrong and their miserable endings. Her worries and scares haunted by that day one. “In the late autumn of 1923, minotaurs haunted my family, To Desdemona, they came in the form of children who couldn’t stop bleeding, or who were cover with fur.” (p.118) The nightmares are horrible and pervasive to Desdemona’s mind. The worries erode her life as she afraid the…

#1) 1. Rebecca Molholt argues that Roman floor mosaics have been in the past looked at the wrong way since art historians have looked at it as a painting and not as a horizontal experience that links myths and sports. #1) 2. One goal of this article is to understand how these mosaics were used. Another goal is to understand how these mosaics worked with the baths where they are located. Lastly, Molholt wants to understand how the myths interact and shape the experience of these floors. #1)…

The speeches of Hera from Homeric Hymn to Apollo Within the passage, Hera expresses her anger toward her husband Zeus who dishonours her by producing Athena alone. The speech is a consolidation of Hera’s jealousy toward the superiority of Athena and the hatred toward her own failure in childbearing. In contrast with the glorious Athena, Hephaestus who Hera produces alone was “feeble from birth among all the gods, lame and withered of foot,” (H.H. 3g). The shame and the disappointment amplify…

1. INTRODUCTION THE CONCEPT OF DYSTOPIA: Dystopia (Greek word dys meaning bad and topos meaning place) or alternatively, cacotopia,1 can be defined as an imagined world in which the society is oppressed and an illusion of a perfect society is maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral or totalitarian control.2 It is a word coined by British philosopher John Stuart Mill. In the dystopian society freedom of thought, action and association (as propounded by Mill) are…

CONCLUSION (THESIS 21.6.15) Poems by women writers on motherhood and mothering, discussed so far conform to the feminist theorization of motherhood both as a subjugating political institution and an enriching personal experience. The poems may not be exclusively written to expose or explore the themes of motherhood alone, but their approach to this topic is extra ordinarily rich and varied, offering fresh insights into how sexual politics and the related institutions, like marriage, religion,…