The Streetcar Named Desire
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FEELINGS OF ISOLATION AND DISEMPOWERMENT MAY RESULT WHEN INDIVIDUALS FIND THEMSELVES OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM OF SOCIETY
AS YOU WITNESS THE STRUGGES OF MEDEA AND BLANCHE, HOW ARE YOU POSITIONED TO RESPOND TO THE CHOICES THEY MAKE?
When people are found to be outside the mainstream of society they struggle to adapt to this new way of life. This can lead them to feel isolated and disempowered within society and can lead them towards acts of desperation. We can see these struggles in the character of Medea, in the Greek tragedy Medea by Euripides, and the character of Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. Both these women are presented as outsiders and isolated from the life that they are accustomed to. Their feelings of insecurity lead them towards acts of extreme
Medea is a strong empowered woman in the times of Ancient Greece which was not generally accepted by the people of Greece. She is from a different land and therefore she is not accustomed to the way of life that she is brought into by Jason and so she feels isolated against the society she living in. She feels this way because she is treated as an object of possession by her husband and an outsider to the customs she is surrounded by, she was a princess in her old land and know she is in Greece and she is being disempowered as a woman and as a person. The first speech that Medea has shows the injustices that women have to put up with at that time, “We women are the most wretched. When, for and extravagant sum, We have bought a husband, we must then accept him as Possessor of our body. This is to aggravate Wrong with worse wrong…... For women, divorce is not Respectable: to repel the man, not possible.” Women were forced to be married by the age of 12-13 and Medea is saying here that once a woman is married then she has no right to anything except stay at home and have children. They were not allowed to leave the house at all, the only occasions being a funeral march or after their...
AS YOU WITNESS THE STRUGGES OF MEDEA AND BLANCHE, HOW ARE YOU POSITIONED TO RESPOND TO THE CHOICES THEY MAKE?
When people are found to be outside the mainstream of society they struggle to adapt to this new way of life. This can lead them to feel isolated and disempowered within society and can lead them towards acts of desperation. We can see these struggles in the character of Medea, in the Greek tragedy Medea by Euripides, and the character of Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. Both these women are presented as outsiders and isolated from the life that they are accustomed to. Their feelings of insecurity lead them towards acts of extreme
Medea is a strong empowered woman in the times of Ancient Greece which was not generally accepted by the people of Greece. She is from a different land and therefore she is not accustomed to the way of life that she is brought into by Jason and so she feels isolated against the society she living in. She feels this way because she is treated as an object of possession by her husband and an outsider to the customs she is surrounded by, she was a princess in her old land and know she is in Greece and she is being disempowered as a woman and as a person. The first speech that Medea has shows the injustices that women have to put up with at that time, “We women are the most wretched. When, for and extravagant sum, We have bought a husband, we must then accept him as Possessor of our body. This is to aggravate Wrong with worse wrong…... For women, divorce is not Respectable: to repel the man, not possible.” Women were forced to be married by the age of 12-13 and Medea is saying here that once a woman is married then she has no right to anything except stay at home and have children. They were not allowed to leave the house at all, the only occasions being a funeral march or after their...