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Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Woman Wondering?
In class, Ms Deckard said that it would be weird/suspicious to see medea strolling around town, not only because she is a woman but also because of who she is and how she publically anounced how she was going to poison Creon, Glauce and Jason. But here im really confused... How can Medea be sent on exile outside of Corinth when everyone will look at her funny because she is a wondering woman? Can anyone explain? Is the laws that we talked about in class just for Greece does the laws/feelings about woman's rights pertain to all of the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea?
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I don't think there are any laws against it, it's just unconventional, practically taboo. It's sort of hard to compare it to an idea today, but you can think of America before the Civil Rights Movement. People who weren't white couldn't use white water fountains, parks, and things like that, only violators could be punished by law.
i think the case with medea is, wherever she goes, she will always be looked at as "funny" or wierd from the point when she betrays and abandons her family. as such she will never be seen as "normal" again
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