User:Mbjones00/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
I don't think I will have this be the article I use for my Intertextuality class. The article I might evaluate is Rape of Persephone.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because there are some similarities between Persephone and Hades and Beauty and Beast. I also read a lot of romance and the HadesxPersephone and BeautyxBeast tropes are used over and over again. What makes these relationships so appealing? What are their connections? The Rape of Persephone article can relay information about Persephone's relationship with Hades, and it has a dark undertone, though there are different versions that consider it not being rape. This is important because it can provide a lens to better analyze the different Beauty and Beast and Cupid and Psyche stories we will read.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

What's most enthralling about this article is its emphasis on looking at past art as a way to see how people in the past relayed this story. It's clear that the art is everywhere. I would say that there needs to be more details in the background information. Simply hyperlinking Wikipedia articles about Zeus and Demeter is sort of lazy. There needs to be more of an explanation. Additionally, in discourse, there's the counter interpretation of Hades and Persephone's relationship not being built on rape, and that addition would apply a different perspective.