Palutena's Short Story: Medusa

In the poem Perseus by Robert Hayden, Medusa is seen through the eyes of Perseus as he witnesses her daunting features. In the beginning of the poem, Medusa is asleep while the snakes that make up her hair are completely awake and ready to turn innocent people into stone. Further more, in order to prevent his death Perseus observes Medusa through his mirroring shield and is astounded by the image and has the strong urge to directly look at the being before him but is fighting the urge to do so, "Her sleeping head with its great gelid mass of serpents torpidly astir burned into the mirroring shield -- a scathing image dire as hated truth the mind accepts at last and festers on," (Hayden Lines 1-6). As a result of her infamous legacy Perseus

Then she began to speak of a world with no room to move, rats that attack you can, bodies piled up, and men without skin. The she starts to see Sethe's face through water and she doesn't want to lose her. She wants to rejoin Sethe.

Her main goal is to prove to others that her dark past is behind her, so she takes on as many missions as possible by the Council. She soon meets Haatim, a young male blogger, who is oblivious to the fact that supernatural forces exist. She saves Haatim from danger and together they start battling other demons which cross their way. They soon realize that the whole world becomes endangered, as an ancient demon takes possession of a small boy’s body. It slowly becomes their mission to save the humanity.

Medusa means "sovereign female wisdom." In Sanskrit it's Medha. Medusa was originally a Libyan Goddess, worshiped by The Amazons as their Serpent-Goddess. She was considered the destroyer aspect of the Great Triple Goddess also called Neith, Anath, Athene or Ath-enna in North Africa and Athana in 1400. BC Minoan Crete. She can also be connected to Africa where she had a hidden, dangerous face, and her hair was represented as resembling dread locks. Libyan Amazons believed that no one could possibly lift her veil, and that to look upon her face was to glimpse one's own death as she saw yours.

Euripides and Homer are said to be two of the four cornerstones of ancient literary education. The former, Euripides, known as one of the great tragedians of classical Athens produced approximately ninety-two plays, but was rejected by most of his contemporaries during his lifetime. Euripides was the first of his time to portray a woman as a sympathetic character and a victim of society. Homer is known as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. His most famous works being the Iliad and the Odyssey. Both of these ancient authors used strong women in their works.

The tragic story of Medusa begins with her mistreatment by Poseidon and Athena. Medusa started her life as a beautiful, pure young lady who was wanted by all

Medusa was a victim and not a villan. Medusa was not born an ugly, cruel lady with snakes as hair and eyes that turned people into stone, she was cursed. Even worse, Medusa was not punished for her own wrong doing. Medusa’s life was completely changed after something horrific happened to her. In this story, Medusa is not the villian, nor the monster many see her as today. Medusa was a girl who was missunderstood.

The Greek mythology presents Medusa as a monster, with the power to turn anyone who looks into her eyes to stone and with snakes that replicate her hair. But, in the poem by Mary Sarton “The Muse As Medusa” we see an incomparable image of Medusa to the Greek mythology. In this poem Medusa helps the speaker through a difficult time. The speaker depicts herself through her poem as someone who is lost, sad and defeated by the world around her. The speaker sees herself in Medusa, where they are both misinterpreted by the world around them. Medusa being powerful is able to cope with the world's misconception of her and shows the speaker how that's possible. The speaker takes into account how the world is the one that misinterpreted them and

Seneca’s portrayal of Medea is exceptionally different. Medea’s story up to the present time is told from her own mouth, not that of the Nurse. The play opens with Medea praying to the gods to “give [her] control” (45) so that she may carry out her vengeance. Her rage and fury are present from the start. She tells herself to “bare your rage for fighting, and prepare yourself to kill, work to a frenzy” (46). She admits that she hopes “men will…pair [her] divorce with [her] wedding in well-matched rivalry” (46). Seneca’s Medea is more in control than Euripides’ Medea. Euripides’ Medea is very

In Medea, by Euripides, conflicts play a major role in the creation of the play. Some examples of these conflicts are with Medea and Jason, Medea and herself, and Medea and Creon. Medea is shown to be a strong, independent woman who does what she wants as well as doesn’t let anything stand in her way. She shares qualities of a traditional male at the time, and the qualities of a traditional female. Euripides makes this clear in the play by creating conflicts to prove women can be a powerful character and that the play in general challenges the idea of misogyny.

The Raft of the Medusa was created by Theodore Gericault in the years 1818 and 1819 during the French Romantic period. This oil painting, which stands at a massive 491x716cm, was created to capture the tragedy of the Medusa.This essay discusses what the Raft of the Medusa was, the reasons behind why Theodore Gericault made this painting and the political impacts it had at the time it was made. The ‘Medusa’ was a french frigate that set sail in 1816 from Rochefort heading to Senegalese. Harris (2011) states that Gericault read an account by survivors about the tragedy of the shipwreck and was intrigued to learn more. He learnt that the

Medusa (Ugly Dussy) Gorgon, age 156, from the city of Ancient Greece, passed away on October 31, 1955 B.c when Percy beheaded her with his sword riptide.

Medea is a dramatic presentation of a daring and smart, manipulative and cunning woman who performs acts of wrath, with a twist. Euripides confers on his Medea impunity in this alternative, unconventional rendition of the story. This approach immediately limits the ability of the performance to rationally explain the workings of the world through the cycle of nemesis, but there are some noteworthy scenes and implied lessons in Euripides’ Medea that make the experience, on a whole, worthwhile. I appreciate that Euripides’ Medea implicitly banks on the engine of nemesis to explain the rise and fall of Jason’s and Medea’s lot respectively, for it offers the audience a rational explanation of the pervasive instability of the world, to the extent

What did you contribute to the class? Specifically, what did you do? How did you make Medea a better place for all the students here?

Euripides’ Medea is a tragic play that takes place in Corinth, Greece. It was first produced in 431 BC. It was during this time that Corinth and Athens were rivals, fighting to have the upper hand. In fact, Corinth and Sparta teamed together against Athens during the Peloponnesian War in 431 BC. Like most literature, Euripides’ Medea incorporates the period in which it was written along with a timeless theme. Euripdes uses the literary devices of setting, irony, and symbolism to depict the theme of identity in relation to marriage.