Thursday, July 21, 2011

Odyssey Part B - Content Paragraph - Women

In the story the Greek women are portrayed as really ugly, sexual, and evil. In the story the women would seduced the men to come to them and then the women would kill them. The only women that helped the men were Athena. That was because she is a goddess and is supposed to help others in need. She is known as the goddess of wisdom. The Sirens were the people who were ugly and sung good. To the men they were beautiful and they wanted to be with them In order to get away from them the men had to put bee's wax in their ears to ignore them and get away safely.

3 comments:

  1. I agree with this post. Women in this poem use their looks to get what they want. Especially Circe.

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  2. I agree with your post. I just don't like how they describe us women. It's not fair.

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  3. I agree with this post. Women in this poem use anything they can to get what they want.

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