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shittywriterbrain · 8 months ago

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when you realise that both odysseus and medea are manipulating, deceiving characters who are way too smart for their own good but are overcome by anger, pride and jealousy which leads them to commit horrendous acts of violence. and then odysseus is the hero and medea is the bitch

#ok there IS a difference #there are multiple differences #medea is expected to tolerate jasons cheating. she doesnt and therefore challenges expectations set on women #odysseus goes on a wild killing rampage murdering and executing all the suitors and penelopes maids #medea kills her own children which i will say is on another level #but they both commit multiple murders #odysseus is a hero. he fought at troy (where he slaughtered ppl in a temple. yay) and hes a greek king #medea is a priestess of hecate and from kolchis so basically from the other end of the world (to the greeks)#so shes not only a weird woman shes also not entirely human aand “barbaric“#but i would argue that both commit revenge out of anger pride and jealousy #only that defines the image we have of medea (ignoring how she helped jason on multiple adventures) as a jealous murderous witch #but it doesnt impact the image we have of odysseus as a wily hero #yeah welcome to my 5. pk #5. pk #and dont even get me STARTED on lady macbeth #in the wise words of gerard way “and so he gets to die a saint but she will always be the whore“#greek mythology #medea #odysseus

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