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DREAMS”

 

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© Kacey Kells

 

 

 

Dreams! Wonderful, ecstatic dreams! Unattainable, amazing dreams, so unreal for a young girl... or a woman!

 

Freedom is a concept out of reach for a female, particularly in this thriving society that is Athens in 443 BC. Because girls' and women’s lives are programmed from birth: they are given no alternative but to be obedient and submissive to their husband.

 

Married at a very young age to a stranger twice her age, she’s an inexperienced and fragile child who will have to remain invisible and mute for the rest of her life, queen of the gynaeceum, whose only mission is to have children and weave. Her horizon is that of a prisoner, locked between four walls, her life devoted to obedience and submission to her husband. She will certainly not survive the many pregnancies that lie ahead of her and will die in childbirth.

 

No one will ever remember her. She, like every woman (maybe apart from Aspasia), belongs to the world of darkness... because she was born a female! She’s a womb, nothing more. Her only merit will be to give sons to her husband, sons who will be the future citizens of the brilliant and powerful city-state.

 

Thanks to the invention of democracy, Athens became a beacon for humanity. “Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it” said Pericles... but it doesn’t belong to females! Because they are worthless!

 

Are they human? The question is relevant; in any case, they are not human enough to become citizens!

 

But she has a dream, inaccessible but powerful, so powerful and bright that her daughters, her granddaughters, the daughters of her granddaughters, and the many generations after them will keep it preciously in their heart... and in their brain. The dream of a place where everyone, regardless of his or her gender, would be free and treated as such.