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Medea and The Painted Veil - Coggle Diagram
Medea and The Painted Veil
Foreigners
Medea
Non-Greeks are treated as inferior
Uncivilized
Uncultured
Barbaric
Greece is viewed as the centre of the world, thus making it the most important and Greeks superior to other people
The Painted Veil
View of the Chinese; Orientalism
Inferior
"Only a Chinese would turn the handle that way"
The Manchu Princess
Exotic
Beautiful
"Kitty felt strangely that the sight of this idol, with her painted face and slanting, wary eyes, made the efforts and the pains of the everyday world she knew slightly absurd. "
Mysterious
"Dark, inscrutable"
"held the key of riddles undivined"
Marriage
Medea
Jason breaks his promise of marrying Medea, and Medea emphasises the importance of marriage to a woman, as her societal status derives from a woman's husband
The Painted Veil
Kitty is trapped in a confining, boring, and loveless marriage, and as a result has an affair with Charles Townsend
Rationality vs Emotion
Medea
Jason represents rationality
Marriage with the princess would mean greater wealth and the ability to provide for Medea and their children
Medea represents emotion
She seeks vengeance against Jason for his betrayal of not fulfilling his promise of marrying her
The Painted Veil
Many irrational choices were made due to emotional impulses
The affair with Walter
Forcing Kitty to go to Mei Tan Fu
Succumbing to Townsend's bed again
The role of females in a society
Support their husbands
Give birth to children
Medea
Rebels against societal expectations and stereotypes of women through the ongoing theme of violence, bloodshed, and rebellion
The Painted Veil
Kitty is a product of her society, and conforms to the societal expectations and as a result seeks material wealth. She is able to reflect on herself and change this value system later on, thus redeeming herself.