Research Paper On Medusa

Medusa was born in Ancient Greece, on October 31, 2111 B.C to Phorcys and Ceto. She graduated from Freaky Figurines High School, and received a degree in Awkward Effigy from Deceased Modeling of Greece University. Medusa is still drooling over the Sea God Poseidon (who she has no chance with whatsoever) that looks way better than her, which is obvious he doesn't have snakes for hair. She lived in Ancient Greece for her whole life with Poseidon tell they snuck into Athena’s castle. Which is the whole reason she was cursed along with her sisters who cursed her.

was once a maiden that vowed to celibacy. She one day fell in love with Poseidon and broke her vows. She was punished by the goddess. Every piece of her pretty hair was turned into a snake. Her eyes turned bloodshot, and who ever looked into her eyes turned to stone. In the movie “Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief” Percy, Annabeth and Grover were looking for the pearls, and they wandered into Medusa's lair. She chased after them wanting to turn them to stone, but her head was chopped off by Percy. They took her head and later used it to turn a dragon to stone.

Perseus is the son of Zeus and Danae, Zeus is a god and Danae is just a human, which makes Perseus a Demigod. Medusa is a beautiful woman but, she has serpents on her head. People turned into stone as soon as they saw Medusa’s face. The story of Perseus and Medusa always interested me. When I saw the sculpture of Perseus holding the head of Medusa and had his sword in the other had I got interested to know more about the story of Perseus and Medusa, I have always heard the story about Perseus and that he killed Medusa but I didn’t know how. I wanted to know more about the story in detail and how Perseus actually killed Medusa without turning into a stone. The sculpture itself looked beautiful, it was carved in Marble.

this way because of how Jason lacked respect for her and drove her to do the horrendous actions. Medea lashing out on Jason further proves the fact that she is her own woman, and becomes the first symbol of feminism in the Greek culture. Another example of Medea’s

Medusa was a murder victim. Medusa’s head was looked at as a treaured item, her eyes would turn people into stone. Perseus, Zeus’s son, a Greek hero, and a monster slayer was sent on a mission. Perseus’ mission was to chop Medusa’s head off to use her eyes to

A final confirmation of Medea’s insanity, irrationality, and violence occurs as she “…dared to strike [her] children with a sword…” (820). These traits are even referred to by Medea, as when she is speaking to herself she exclaims “you have the knowledge, not to mention woman’s nature…” (796). This “woman’s nature” (796) is hinted by a previous statement made by Medea. She states that when “…faced with an injustice in the bedroom, there is no other mind more murderous” (793) than that of a woman.

After Medusa's affair with Poseidon she got pregnant with two children, Pegasus a winged horse, and Chrysaor, he of the Golden sword. They were sprang from Medusa's neck when Perseus cut her head. This myth of Medusa and Perseus is one of the most famous ones. Perseus was the

So she was turned to a pretty girl with blonde hair to a girl who was now very ugly! Medusa’s Family Medusa’s dad was Phorcys, he was the greek sea god. Medusa’s mom was Ceto, the dangers of the sea and the monsters of the sea. The two gorgons were her sisters their names were Stheno and Euryale and they could also turn man to stone.

However, he shows Medea and her primal response to pain as a life figure, to bring pain upon those who brought pain to her. As we look at Medea, she transforms into a bloody warrior, a cruel heartbroken woman, full of vengeance. Her passionate love turns into distasteful revenge. In order to combat pain, Medea erases her vulnerability and transforms from a sensitive and pitiful woman, into the strongest warrior on the battlefield. Her strength is bloody retaliation, being heartless and cold in nature.

This was shown in her fight with Perseus. Perseus had to overcome the fear of fighting her and had to cut off Medusa’s head. The problem was that no one could look her in the eye or they would be turned to stone by her glare. To remedy this, Perseus fought her by instead watching her movements in the reflection shown on his shield. In this manner, he was able to confront the Gorgon and kill her by removing her head.

Another woman who also became strong and fierce with her vengeance was Medea, “her glare [was] as fierce as a bull’s… [and she was] wild like a lion [who’d] just given birth...” Medea was a powerful witch and when she was wronged by her husband she used her powers for revenge. Medea’s husband, Jason, left her for another woman; he left her for a princess. And to that she stated “Most of the time, I know, a woman is filled with fear. She’s worthless in a battle and flinches at the sight of steel. But when she’s faced with an injustice in the bedroom, there is no other mind more murderous” (Medea 267-271). After lots of grieving for her husband’s treachery she decides to pretend to be on good terms with him and sends his new with gifts; an embodied robe and a golden crown. She sent these gifts to her with her children however, using her powers she poisoned them so that the gifts would kill the new wife. Jason’s new wife “took the intricate robe and wrapped it around her body, and set the golden crown upon her curls…what happened next was terrible to see. Her skin changed color, and her legs were shaking…white foam at her mouth, her eyes popping up, the blood drained from her face…the gold gripped tight, and every movement of her hair caused the fire to blaze out twice as

She is not shown as strong as she was in the myth. Hence Medea herself differs

How she is using language, structure and form. Duffy presents Medusa as empowered by her transformation. She refuses to play the victim, weak and powerless. Instead she accepts her fate and becomes dangerous and dominate. She has been transformed into a gorgon a hideous creature but she directs her anger and aggression towards the reader.

Medusa was not the best person to look at. Medusa changed by getting a pair of golden wings. She also had her hair full of snakes which made her scary. She also looked hideous. Medusa was ugly and not pretty anymore thanks to Athena because she was jealous.

Poseidon became infatuated with Medusa, he seduced her into the temple of Athena (goddess of wisdom). Because of this, Athena became infuriated and took her anger out on Medusa. She was so angry that she turned the maiden into a Gorgon, a terrifying female creature with hairs of venomous snakes and whose glance will turn a person to stone.