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In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the thematic similarities and differences in these two literary works with the focus being on class status, "the other," and exile. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the themes of both works reflect the times in which they were written. They are rooted in within tales and folklore with which the authors
knew their audiences and readers were well familiar. Each narrative tells a story that considers the social concerns of ancient Greece and nineteenth-century America. Themes such as class
status, the other, and exile are featured prominently in each work, although the author may elect to portray them in different ways that are determined largely by the prevailing attitudes
of their respective eras. Euripides is often regarded as one of the earliest feminist authors because his treatment of women is different from those of the more traditional ancient Greek
authors who never questioned their gender-determined status as second-class citizens. But while he depicts the status of women as unjust, it also represents necessary consequence of a classical Greek
society that was created by men for men. Medeas status is completely linked to that of her husband Jason, and when he leaves her for King Creons daughter Glauce,
she becomes a persona non grata in her adopted home of Corinth. She bemoans the lowly class status of women in her lament: "Of everything that is alive and
has a mind, we women are the most wretched creatures. First of all, we have to buy a husband with a vast outlay of money--we have to take a
master for our body. The latter is still more painful than the former. And here lies the most critical issue--whether we take a good husband or a bad.
For divorce brings shame on a womans reputation and we cannot refuse a husband his rights. We come to new ways of behavior, to new customs--and, since we
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