Man Will Not Stop Me Analysis

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Man Will Not Stop Me: Revenge At Last! Hecuba by Euripides shows Trojan Queen, Hecuba, struggling to come to terms with those decisions of Polymestor, the King of Thrace. Through the raw emotions of anger, grief and frustration, she decides to revenge in her child’s murder. However, Hecuba must go against the social boundaries that are set for women. She creates her own “laws” by telling Agamemnon that she will seek revenge on Polymestor and actually going through with it. Yet at the same time, femininity in the eyes of men is seen as a disadvantage, but this only drives her more to do as she wants; Hecuba uses her femininity to her advantage. As Hecuba reaches heights in her mission, she faces prejudiced remarks from Polymestor
Using the boundaries set for woman, Hecuba shows that women are in fact capable of defeating men. Although at one point Polymestor thinks that he is in control, Hecuba is always one step in front of him. When Polymestor thinks that she is his least worry it actually allows for him to be more at a disadvantage. Although it seems Hecuba has achieved everything she wanted, her revenge for justice will never replace son or restore her happiness. Today in modern society we tend to associate revenge with no true happy ending. Even though Hecuba proved that women could be powerful, she really didn 't do anything to advance the status of women in modern terms, because we look down upon revenge. The revenge Hecuba committed, today in our society, is equal to first-degree murder. We as Americans have learned through our justice system that revenge can never fully restore happiness, and the same is seen throughout Hecuba. In the end the winds that will send them home pick up and cause us to question whether this is what the gods want or not. All in all, Hecuba has lost, Polymestor has lost, Agamemnon will lose, and not one person has walked away with restored