Name: Kassandra
ISBN: 9783518742204

Christa Wolf

In Kassandra greift Christa Wolf auf einen Mythos des abendländischen Patriarchats zurück, den Trojanischen Krieg. Während Kassandra, die Seherin, auf dem Beutewagen des Agamemnon sitzt, überdenkt sie noch einmal ihr Leben. Mit ihrem Ringen um Autonomie legt sie Zeugnis ab von weiblicher Erfahrung in der Geschichte.

Erzählung

Kassandra

Kassandra, die äSeherinä, ist die schillerndste Frauenfigur der griechischen Mythologie. Sie sagte dem übermächtigen Troja den Untergang voraus und musste ihre Prophezeiung mit dem Leben bezahlen.

Анастасия Розова

*Read for class.

I loved Cassandra. And I don't mean the book, I mean the character. I adore books that are about women from Ancient Greece, or Troy in this case. Don't get me wrong, the book was good itself, but it wasn't anything groundbreaking for me. Maybe it was once, when it was written.

So, Cassandra. She stayed true to herself. She loved Aeneas, but even though he called her with him to leave, she never did. She was a true Trojan till the very end. She cared about her people like men never can. She loved her people, she tried to save their lives instead of their pride and so-called honor. That is why she was so different from men of war. That is why she was proud to be a woman.

In addition to that, it is a feminist novel, actually, this is one of the main themes in Wolf's work. So it was very interesting to read about powerful women of that time period. Glad we read this one for class.

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