Chloe Chiappetti

Greek tragedy is like a form of art and it is designed to hold a mirror in society. People will always have the same flaws, the same desires, the same outcomes.I chose to speak about Cassandra

Cassandra, was a daughter of Hecuba and King Priam, the rulers of Troy during the Trojan War according to Homer's Iliad. Cassandra was a beautiful young woman, blessed with the gift of prophecy by Apollo, who was infatuated with her. Cassandra has always been misunderstood and misinterpreted as a madwoman or crazy doomsday prophetess. Shakespeare presented her as a madwoman ranting and raving along the walls of Troy in his play Troilus and Cressida. More importantly, her own people and family in Troy mistook her as a raving lunatic. She has always been shown in paintings with her long hair flying around her shoulders in what has been considered lunatic fashion, scantily clad, and helpless on her knees in the face of her predicted doom. But there is so much more to Cassandra than her maddened predictions and pitiable treatment. Cassandra was a great, intelligent heroine who was cursed by the gods for not playing by their rules. She is a tragic figure, not a madwoman.

http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/papers/fittoncassandra/cass2.html

http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/papers/fittoncassandra/cass2.html

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