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Comparative analysis of two Greek characters Phaedra and Hera

Introduction

This research is the comparative analysis of two Greek characters Phaedra and Hera, the two Greek goddesses who posses different attributes within themselves. Greek Goddesses have the most profound attributes and beauty within them. They were regarded with great esteem of having power of love, beauty, growth, development as well as fierce war, and anger. It is usually said that the characteristics in women as enfolded due the characteristics of these goddesses.

In this study, we try to make a comparison of the roles between two most profound Goddesses who served their dignity in their times, in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on the myth of Phaedra and the History of Hera as the ruler women within themselves. Further the research defines its relation with the power and dignity within their rule and how did they manage to drive their rights to the story.

Both goddesses have a different story and virtues in relation to the authority they had on their spouses and children. It is noticed that the character of the goddesses in Greek mythologies are derivatives of their names.

Thesis Statement

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. Oliver Goldsmith.

The woman is always characterized as the strongest person in having the stable emotions and characteristics then man. It can be related that women goes through most trauma and troubles that are created by man. This is the basic reason that the level of tolerance is more in women than man. For example, a man will not forgive his wife if she is had an affair with other man but a wife will forgive his husband for the sake of her children and herself (as the society will not accept her openly as a single mother), if he is having an affair with other women. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base (Radcliffe-Brown 1952, 3).

Hera

“I sing of golden-throned Hera whom Rhea bore. Queen of the immortals is she, surpassing all in beauty: she is the sister and the wife of loud-thundering Zeus, the glorious one whom all the blessed throughout high Olympus reverence and honor even as Zeus who delights in thunder.” (Homeric Hymn to Hera).

History

Hera was the goddesses of marriage, and love and she was considered as the symbol of jealousy among the women. She was one of 12 Olympian Gods of Classical Mythology. She was the youngest daughter of Coronus and Gaia and was entitled of inheritance of her garden. She was also regarded as the "gold-shod Hera". She was swallowed by her father like other of her siblings and was rescued by her husband brother Zeus.

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