Theseus And The Minotaur Summary

The curator put together three paintings of three different women, stories that express different stories of love. These three woman were considered beautiful and prizes to be desired, however the love that they believed would be eternal was just misery.
The first painting is by Giorgio de Chirico, he painted it in 1913 called Ariadne. It shows of a woman laying down, she looks to be sleeping or waiting for something or someone. She looks to be alone; she looks to have been left behind. The sun seems to be setting, and she is still waiting. The painting is based on myth “Theseus and the Minotaur”, a myth about a hero from Athens who is missioned to slay a beast but couldn’t do it without the help of the King’s daughter. After slaying the
The common theme between Ariadne, Medea, and Phaedra is the love that they are willing to sacrifice for the people they love. However, the people they love are not willing to sacrifice everything for them. These women gave so much of themselves, they helped the men that they loved in order to be with them. They risked their lives, did all the hard work to make their lives easier in order to live happily ever after. Sadly, they were hurt in the end. These women were left behind, forgotten, or killed to just find their own happiness. All of these three women have had an interaction with Theseus, at the end it was because of Theseus that the lives of these women went in a different direction. Ariadne believed that she was in love with Theseus and she was going to live happily ever after with him. At the end, she was left alone on the island of Naxos. Medea was expelled from Athens because she wanted to ensure the throne for her son that she had with the King. A throne that was to be given to the eldest son which is Theseus, one that he didn’t hold for a while. And lastly, Phaedra married Theseus because she believed that she loved him. Only to be put under a spell to fall in love with her stepson and at the end she killed herself. Love has a way to be misguided and lead people into their doom. When people say that “Love is blind” they mean that one person can manipulate another person saying it’s in the name of love. Love isn’t supposed to be misguided, manipulating, or about life and death. Love is about giving your all and excepting the other person to do the same. At the end, Theseus paid for messing with love, he lost his mind and was banished. Love is something so powerful that it cannot be tampered with, love has a way of always winning out in the