Thursday, August 25, 2011

Branwen

Men and women differ in many ways. In a perfect world, they both serve a different purpose. The men are the providers, hunters and, usually, head of the household. Women are the care-takers, healers and nurturers of the young. The roll of women in this story is peacekeeper. Since the men can only cause problems, it is up to the women to make the world peaceful. Branwen has been named White Raven, which means she is independent and pure. Efinisen is an example of a man causing problems. He finds out Branwen and Matholwch, King of Ireland, slept together, joining the two in holy matrimony, and gets angry and kills all the horses promised to him. What a dick right? To make it even worse, later he crushes the heads of warriors in bags of flour, then walks away singing, just because it seems. Back to the women, Branwen called her brother about the the Irish treating her poorly and this causes retaliation. She ends up being the peacekeeper, you could say, but only for herself. And the men then have to clean up the mess. SO in the end, nobody is perfect, but the ways in which men and women contrast always will be...

1 comment:

  1. Interesting idea: the difference between men and women, but you deal only with Branwen and Efnisien.

    You might think about looking at the meaning of the characters name and how it reflects what they do in the story.

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