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Pandora's Descendants

Posted on:2008-01-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J L YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360215965966Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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It is believed by Riane Eisler and Georg Simmel that the characters such as peace, all-inclusive, and sensibility which preserved by women are the only way to solve the problem of modernity. The characters of men such as the interest in logos, conquering and slaughter have been viewed as the headstream of disasters. But in ancient Greece, it is women who were assumed as the origin of misfortunes. The propose of this article is to analyze the battles between men and women which were described by ancient Greece & Roma writers in dramas of Agamemnon,Antigone and Medea.In the Greece myth, the origins of man and woman are separated. Male was created by Prometheus. And the first female on the ground was named Pandora. The ancient Greece poets said the man was the victim. They said the woman is horrible disaster from Zeus. Woman is representation of the will of the highest god who give her some mysterious power to destroy. So man have to bow to this power. That is man's fate.Feminie and Women are separated in the book Erga kai hemerai ? Theogonia. The virtues of feminie belong to goddess. But the women on the ground are the creatures come from the male god, some horrible technological products. The feature of feminie and the male's spirit are mixed in one body. Woman is the punishment from Zeus for the crime of stealing fire. Woman is somebody in the struggle of man and the gods. Woman brings affliction to man. Pandora is the origin of all women on the ground. She brought the evil, and so did her descendant.The most impressive thing of Clytaemnestra in Agamemnon is mannishness. She looks far from traditional woman. She has the man's psychological character, man's brutality and man's finesse. Her daughter's death is the reason why she murdered her husband. In the opinion of her husband, immolate the daughter was very reasonable for the victory. Whereas Clytaemnestra believed that child is second to none. The conflict between the Clytaemnestra and her husband is the conflict between idea of procreation and idea of war. This is also the conflict of the Trojan War. The writer believed that the justice of the war couldn't overwhelmed the justice of procreation. So Agamemnon deserved his death.The conflict between the human and god raised by Antigone was explained to be a conflict between man and woman by Creon. Creon tried to escape from the conflict he must face, which between human and god, so he produced a term named Woman. Women can't accept the moral division according to the polis law just because they identified a fact that people are born to be equal due to their instinct of procreation. So they have the ability to protect the god's laws of death. Women would be considered to be born enemies of a polis if we consider this.The mankind has made a step to a new age since the power(Medea) and the lust(Iason) was combined as one in the first regular boat of Greece. God wanted Iason to pay for the mastery of navigation technology so bring Medea to him.Zeus punished them with Pandora when mankind got the fire. Clytaemnestra killed mankind president when they started a war. Antigone brought the calamity when mankind made an order in polis. Medea destroyed the first shipmaster when mankind mastered the navigation technology. Women's power of destroy far stronger than the power procreation. This conclusion is just same as the criticism that Riane Eisler gave to man, as a feminist.
Keywords/Search Tags:Greece Myth, Tragedy, Woman, Man's Narratio
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