Alex Gilkerson
ENG 1510
November 28, 2012
Medusa & Perseus
I never knew this part of the Medusa story and it is very surprising. Back then it wasn’t even that bad of a thing for women to be raped or to be beaten by males. Once she got her “powers” everything changed. She basically switched roles with the males. She was once afraid of them, now they are afraid of her. She now had the power to make the males suffer. It was fate from Zeus for all of this to happen. Even though her father hid her away in that little room, it was fate for her to turn into that monster. Myth is a construct in my opinion because it has fate. Something that has to be followed. Just like a construct, it has to be followed. So Perseus succeeds because it is a construct or fate for him to do so.
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