Nicholas Kollert
English 1510
Cixous_Medusa_Perseus Response
November 26, 2012
Cixous_Medusa_Perseus
Response
After watching the Medusa video in
class and watching the Jim Henson’s video outside of class there are many
things the videos bring into question such as gender, rape, authority, and
fate. The first Thing that I found
interesting was that in both cases of the story the authority figures all
blamed the victim of the rape to always be at fault, I found this crazy because
now in days in almost every case its not the victims fault for being raped at
all, This was just one example that compared times from back then to times now
in days. Both of these movies also highlighted typical gender roles such as the
male figure being strong and powerful and always coming out on top over a
female enemy. Another gender role that is highlighted was the fact that in both
movies there were male role models in leadership roles that were certainly over
powering female persons. Yet one more thing that is highlighted in these movies
was fate, I feel that the movies were trying to say that each individual person
must make their own fate and that no person is born with what fate they are
going to have. I feel that myth is a construct because a myth is pretty much a
story and story telling is a construct so I do believe that myth is indeed a
construct. In the end I feel that Perseus won the journey because he took in
and remembered everything people were telling him about medusa and he was just
really focused and disciplined on achieving his goal of getting medusas head. Overall
I thought both of the movies were a very cool watch and it was very informative
on the Greek myth of medusa and Perseus.
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