Van Wyk Smith talks about the Greek myth of the daughter of a Greek god who was raped and carried off to the underworld, only being allowed to visit a little part of the year. Van Wyk Smith says, “Rape and/ or abduction is repeatedly invoked as a metaphor for the violence, sacrifice and suffering that seem always to have been part of such seismic shifts in human affairs” (Smith, 19). Our world seems to have been built upon violence, we have a lot of violence within our nations forthcoming and I’m not sure that it is something we should be proud of. Rape is just another form of violence that can be portrayed on others, and other
Van Wyk Smith talks about the Greek myth of the daughter of a Greek god who was raped and carried off to the underworld, only being allowed to visit a little part of the year. Van Wyk Smith says, “Rape and/ or abduction is repeatedly invoked as a metaphor for the violence, sacrifice and suffering that seem always to have been part of such seismic shifts in human affairs” (Smith, 19). Our world seems to have been built upon violence, we have a lot of violence within our nations forthcoming and I’m not sure that it is something we should be proud of. Rape is just another form of violence that can be portrayed on others, and other