Medea is an epic tale of a struggle between two characters, an opportunistic, deceitful man and a barbaric sorceress, opposed by gender and capabilities. ... However, suppose for a moment the notion that these major characters do not always provide a sufficient and "true" foil as the play suggests. ... The tragic play Medea establishes many contrasting characteristics of the two most influential characters, Medea and Jason. ... Suppose then, it is more useful to discover the "wrinkles" within the foil between the crucial characters of the play. ... Yet, the injustice of murder and Medea's...

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She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentricism and psychoanalytic fear of castration. ... In an age of female protagonists-like in Disney's newest animated musical feature Frozen-and even male objectification-like the trailer for the new feature Magic Mike XXL-there may be hope that contemporary narrative cinema has found a way to free itself from phallocentricism and objectification of its female characters. ... From a tertiary lev...

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For many years discussions of sexuality were informed by a distinction between 'sex' and 'gender.' The sex of a person was judged to be 'biologically determined' and their gender to be 'culturally and socially constructed' (Abercrombie, Hill and Turner, 1988: 103). Gender rol...

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