Medea
Prompt: Read Judy Brady's essay, "I Want a Wife." What do you admire about the essay? What don't you admire about the essay? To what extent do you consider it effective and/or persuasive? Next, how does this essay relate to Medea? What parts of Brady's essay do you think Medea could relate to?
Response:
I do not find anything to admire while reading the Judy Brady's essay. Although I have to admit that the ideal wife described in the essay could be something people usually dreams about, I can only find it ironic and meaningless on certain level. Overtly, I believe the essay is no good persuading people on the idea of "want a wife", but do let people rethink of their own family issues somehow.
Considering the situation in the play Medea, this essay seems like an abreaction from the perspective of medea. Jason would be the male described in Judy Brady's essay, who want his wife to understand and obey him for anything he has done. Interestingly enough, ones who ever held this mind in the history was dead at the end.
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Bill, explain what it is about the essay you find meaningless and unpersuasive . . . It's ok to think that, but you need to be able to describe why.
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