They talked how hard it is to be ambitious woman, who knows what she wants and all the negativities about being powerful woman. It is hard to be a woman in the 21st century and to live with all kind of stereotypes, to fight for equal rights, and to be: a good mother, wife, and woman with career at the same time. Traditionally, the female stereotypic role is to marry, have children and take care for the household and her husband. This is unfair and hard to live it. Not every woman on the planet wants to get married and have children.
Romm concluded that even though Agrippina may have been manipulative and ambitious she was still able to achieve what women of the era could not. The write Cat Pierro’s argues that Agrippina the Younger’s life is one that is full of mistakes, the largest of which was giving birth Nero. Pierro interpretation of Agrippina is that she was an Austere , arrogant woman that would use her sexuality to gain power. She was jealous of any woman that tried to become close to her husband and then her son, even going as so far to order the execution of a women that her husband Claudius complimented. Eventually she vilified herself enough to turn herself not only to turn her son against her but most of the court as well.
Prospero using a tempest to shipwreck is previous offenders and plotting to sabotage them, and Medea plotting to kill Jason’s new female interest and her kids to avenge her husband’s mistreatment, are both using unjust acts to retaliate their offenders. Their actions, though enacted through anger, are a clear violation of basic moral reasoning, and are a driving theme between both works. In Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Euripides’ Medea the dearth of morality manifested in both main characters, is a prevalent theme similarly expressed through the author’s use of a sympathetic figure and the characters illusion of justice they strive for, yet is differentiated greatly by Medea and Prospero’s concluding acts upon their schemes for vengeance. Medea’s foremost introduction is the details of her husband, Jason’s, betrayal, “but now their love is all turned to hate …For Jason hath betrayed his own children and my mistress dear for the love of a royal bride” (17). A moral breach in marriage is the perfect beginning to a sympathetic figure, as Medea, “lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting away in tears” (17), Euripides keenly draws upon her devastation and grief towards
Carrie shut the windows with her telekinetic powers and insisted on going to the prom. Chris got banned from prom, because she refused to attend detention. Chris told her boyfriend, Billy, that she wanted revenge on Carrie. They went on a farm to kill a pig and drained the blood into a bucket and placed it above the school’s stage. Chris got two of her friends to swap the election of king and queen, so Tommy and Carrie would win.
Media: Medea is married to Jason but Jason wants to forsake her for his political growth .When Media comes to know of this she decides to wreak havoc on all. She does not even think about Jason who she loves her dominant thoughts are revenge. The love disappears and is replaced by a compounding rage on Jason. Her threat of anger sends a threat to the king Creon who banishes her from the state thinking that this anger will upset the peace of his state . Medea begs of the king to give her a day to put her affairs in place and the King agrees.
Her story, although we might not know if they’re completely true, tells of a woman who knew how to use her resources to gain the maximum out of her life. The men in her life were, for the most part, submissive, scared, and a little tortured by her. That is no way for a man to act, so to get them so willing, she had to have some power over them. As much as I respect her and really like her abilities, she does have a couple downfalls. She’s pretty disrespectful and with her fifth husband, they only way she got anything was because she hit him.
Beatrice is the representation of a modern woman who breaks free from the social norms, which preferred quiet and subdued women, only to be seen and not to be heard, like her cousin Hero. Beatrice is a strong character, she is witty, sometimes scornful, bold, sarcastic and amidst all this- emotional. She professes a stubborn malignity towards the opposite sex but also posseses a lurking fascination for her ‘enemy – Benedick. When we are introduced to Beatrice, we see her as the great lady, bright, brilliant, beautiful, enforcing admiration as she moves among fine ladies and accomplished gallants of her circle. She has a quick eye to see what is weak or ridiculous in man or woman.
The final line “Who could not say, ‘Tis pity she’s a whore?” can be seen as directed towards her and so she is blamed for everything that has occurred. Throughout the play she is seen as quite powerful and headstrong by refusing many marriage proposals and being quite stubborn in doing so. However, she is reduced to a weak being however upon dying which is a culmination of her passions. It is perceived that women are a danger to men and to society as a whole and so Giovanni’s actions are to be blamed not on himself, but on Annabella because of the beauty she possesses. Giovanni states that Annabella’s “lips would tempt a saint” thus showing the corruption her presence inflicts upon even the supposed innocent of men.
Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most famous and frightening characters, who throughout the play constantly battles between her desperation for masculinity, and also with her natural instincts of femininity. She continually suppresses her instincts towards compassion, motherhood and fragility, the factors of femininity in which she loathes, and instead she turns her ambitions in favour of ruthlessness, and the single-minded pursuit of power. Throughout the play, Lady Macbeth refers to motherhood, and menstruation several times, ‘make thick my blood, stop up th’access and passage to remorse…’ begging spirits to get rid of her menstruation and so block up her blood flow, and so she hopes all empathy and sense of caring will be abolished in order to carry out the dreadful deeds she and Macbeth will partake in. She is desperate to show no weakness, and goes as far as to beg to evil spirits to take from her all natural womanly instincts. She is frightened that she will not be able to carry out the murder if her husband so fails.
The condemnation might have started out because they were forced to but eventually the Handmaids enjoy comdemning each other. The Red Centre therefore turns women against each other until the women don’t know who they could trust anymore. This puts the women in constant fear and they are then forced to do what is expected of them to survive. Gilead uses women to control women. At the Red Centre, it is the Aunts that drills Gilead’s messages into the Handmaids’ heads.