One of the most pivotal pieces in this telling of Cassandra is often how the choices of the women don’t seem to matter or when they do, they’re often met with disastrous consequences. In the case for Cassandra one of the most disastrous choices she made in her life was denying Apollo, as since he was a god he had the power to ruin her in ways worse than violating her physical body and for the most part that’s exactly what he did to her, he gave her the gift or curse depending on how you want to look at it to see into the future, except no one would believe her prophecies. Not only does that force her into the life of being a seer it takes her ability of choice away, how can you make any choices when the future is laid out already? She’s not the only one unable to make choices when it comes to being a woman, it was discussed that the girls had to line up in the town and when a man would toss a coin into their lap they had to follow them and in most cases satisfy them, that just turns women into objects and tools rather than into people, all because they can’t make the choice of who they want to have their first with. Probably the only choice that Cassandra felt like was best for her came at the end when she decided to stay, she willingly stayed even though it was going to come at the cost of her own life. Ending up as a slave to Agamemnon only to be killed by his wife Clytemnestra, but maybe she had decided she no longer wanted to be used as a pawn or tool in the world of man used her last decision to set herself free, either way it becomes painfully apparent how important the concept of choice is and how impactful choice can be to the ancient Greeks.
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