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Grief can be blinding and if not checked can turn into anger and revenge. What recourse do women have when an injustice is done to themselves and their families? This is touched on in A Spartan's Sorrow by Hannah Lynn. This retelling of the ancient myth of Clytemnestra and her murder of her husband for killing their daughter on this subject as well as others. When one lives in a society where women have no true rights and are seen as little better than servants, or worse as property to be used as the master sees fit, what can a mother do to protect her children? Grief can turn to anger, which can turn into revenge, which can lead to a cycle of tragedy.
Also, what is to be done, when the system and society is defended and encouraged by the women living in it. Electra idolizes her father and hates her mother. She refuses to bend, to see the gray areas of not just life, but the circumstances in her own house. She continues the cycle of tragedy that should have ended long ago. This is an unbendable society. The inability to bend continues the cycle of tragedy that should have ended long ago.
What re-courses do women have when the society is against you? What happens when women themselves condone the society that treats them as less than? Electra is the one who is constantly pushing for revenge. She keeps poking a wound that is trying to close. She is the one who refuses to side with the one who has endured harm. She is the one who is siding with the system.
A Spartan's Sorrow is a book that needs to be read and discussed by both women and men. Questions need to be asked and discussed by both.
Grief can be blinding and if not checked can turn into anger and revenge. What recourse do women have when an injustice is done to themselves and their families? This is touched on in A Spartan's Sorrow by Hannah Lynn. This retelling of the ancient myth of Clytemnestra and her murder of her husband for killing their daughter on this subject as well as others. When one lives in a society where women have no true rights and are seen as little better than servants, or worse as property to be used as the master sees fit, what can a mother do to protect her children? Grief can turn to anger, which can turn into revenge, which can lead to a cycle of tragedy.
Also, what is to be done, when the system and society is defended and encouraged by the women living in it. Electra idolizes her father and hates her mother. She refuses to bend, to see the gray areas of not just life, but the circumstances in her own house. She continues the cycle of tragedy that should have ended long ago. This is an unbendable society. The inability to bend continues the cycle of tragedy that should have ended long ago.
What re-courses do women have when the society is against you? What happens when women themselves condone the society that treats them as less than? Electra is the one who is constantly pushing for revenge. She keeps poking a wound that is trying to close. She is the one who refuses to side with the one who has endured harm. She is the one who is siding with the system.
A Spartan's Sorrow is a book that needs to be read and discussed by both women and men. Questions need to be asked and discussed by both.