In any piece of literature there could be many interpretations of what the author is illustrating. ... On a different note, though there is a similar topic involved in both arguments, the two do not develop the same overall meaning, and are overall very different. ... In any piece of literature there are many possibilities to what the author is trying to display to the reader. ...

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Travis and Barlowe (1995) make note of the fact that in the "original" myth of Ovid, Perseus "seeks the power of Medusa's evil eye, which is the ability to arrest, immobilize, and make statues of others" (pp. 47). ... It is worth noting the conclusion made by modern scholars Travis and Barlowe who point out that by using the Perseus-Medusa myth as the "context of analysis" (pp. 50) in terms of the "academic and cultural demonstrations of the simultaneous claim/failure of dialogue and as a cautionary tale for feminists, our particular interrogation can remind us all of the oppressive disc...

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