Throughout multiple mythological stories women have been shown as jealous‚ revengeful and intrusive. Prometheus and Pandora The Great Bear Perseus and Medusa Medea (A Women Scorned) Antigone Prometheus and Pandora~ Prometheus and his brother stole fire from the gods and gave it to humankind. Of course‚ the gods were furious. As PUNISHMENT‚ the gods gave the brothers a women‚ named Pandora to Prometheus and his brother. However‚ even as punishment‚ the gods still gave Pandora valuable traits. Epimetheus
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A man driving home through the rundown (shonky) side of town with his children in the backseat sees a heavily tattooed homeless man. The children wince at the sight of the vagrant when he tries to wash the windscreen of the car in the hope of making a few pence. The father tells the children to remember the ’clown punk’ although his reason is unclear. The philosophical tone of the poem would suggest that the speaker wants his children to look past the decay of the clown punk and see his inner
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similarities between the movie and the myth are that in both‚ Perseus is helped to defeat Medusa‚ Perseus threw Medusa’s eye‚ and in both the movie and the myth Andromeda’s mom compares her to someone. The three main differences are Medusa has three sisters in the myth and not in the movie‚ also in the movie the Djjng and warriors help Perseus and in the myth Athena and Hernia help Perseus to defeat Medusa. Also‚ In the movie Perseus threw the witches eye on the ground and in the myth he throws it
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Poseidon’s child‚ and his quest was to fetch Zeus’ lightning bolt. Some myths state he’s Zeus’ true son‚ and his quest was to kill Medusa‚ the eldest Gorgon for his mother’s wedding gift. People say he was once the king of Macedonia. But which one is really is the original myth? Perseus’ quest to kill Medusa is transformative as he changed the Greek’s lives by killing the evil Medusa. Perseus’ story started when his mother‚ Danae‚ got locked in the tower by her father because of an oracle that predicted
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Explore the ways the characters are developed in ‘Medusa’‚ ‘The River God’‚ ‘The Ruined Maid’ and ’The Clown Punk’. The Ruined Maid The Ruined Maid was written in 1866 and published in 1902. It similarly revealed the injustices of Victorian morality and women’s insecure social position. By playing on the word ‘ruined’‚ Hardy questions which woman’s reality is the harsher and suggests the irony of class distinctions and moral rectitude. Stanza 1 The speaker of the first three lines is an unnamed
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remembered for decapitating the head of Medusa. Medusa was the "bad guy" and because Perseus killed her‚ he is considered a true hero. However‚ Perseus has done many other hero quality things‚ such as saving Andromeda. He was a great man I have been asked‚ "Do you think Perseus deserves to be referred to as a hero?". My response to that is yes! I have few reasons to support this. For one‚ he decapitated the head of the evil Medusa under request of Pollydectes. Medusa was extremely and scary because
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the characteristics of the reanimated dead in his work “Medusa” in 1597. The gorgon‚ a monstrous female with live‚ venomous snakes in place of her hair‚ is painted at the precise time of her awareness
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sense of understanding for this type of art and how it is create. One of his paintings “Head of Medusa” can be seen by many as very grotesque‚ yet it is incredibly detailed and realistic. Medusa was known as a Gorgon in Greek mythology‚ and that was of evil. Many often described her as a winged type creature with head of snakes. Though‚ she was mortal and Perseus killed Medusa by decapitating her. Medusas death is found in the epic‚ Argonautica. This painting is most likely depicting the defeat of
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Mastigias papua‚ most commonly known as the “Golden Medusa” or “lagoon jelly” is one of the many jellyfishes in the class Scyphozoa. This species of jellyfish is unique because they can be found in bays‚ lagoons‚ and harbors‚ but are most commonly found in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean. While in its habitat the jellyfish follows the sun from west to east until it reaches the shadows formed by the shore. Since this type of jellyfish has very little muscular movement by itself‚ it must be carried
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process was used frequently throughout the time of fine art. The Raft of Medusa by Gericault‚ and Mount Sainte-Victoria broke traditional fine arts when they combined it with applied arts‚ which is the application of design to objects of everyday use (“Applied Arts‚ 2013). The Raft of the Medusa is an oil painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and Lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) (“Raft of Medusa‚” 2013). Géricault undertook extensive research and produced many preparatory
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