Perseus and eight others are off to the wicked old witches. When they arrive to the witches’ lair, this scene becomes very intense and imaged very well around them. The witches are in a dark deserted place. There are three witches who symbolize past, present, and future. These witches do not have eyes on their heads but they do have one eye that they share among themselves so that they can see. Perseus and the others ask one too many questions, so the witches demand that one of their men is to be sacrificed in order to receive another answer. Therefore Perseus steals their eye so that the witches would tell him how the Kraken can be defeated. He returns the eye as soon as they tell him that Medusa can turn anything into stone with her gaze. After leaving the witches lair, Perseus runs into Zeus whom asks him to return to Olympus where he rightfully belongs. Perseus refuses because he does not believe that he is part god. Due to Perseus’ refusal Zeus gives Perseus a golden Medusa coin as a token to the underworld.
The two villagers Ozal and Kucuk decide that they can no longer travel any longer with Perseus on his journey. As a gift they craft a shield made from the scorpions they have defeated together. Io tells the men that Medusa was not a beast at one point. Medusa was so beautiful, Posedon could not help but become tempted in her enduring looks. Medusa goes to Athena’s temple for protection, but Athena did not show any grief towards her. Instead Athena cursed Medusa with a look of stone. Meaning any men that gazes into her eyes will turn into stone, women on the other hand cannot be harmed by her curse. Medusa symbolizes many things in literature. For example Medusa, in the form of a Greek word metis represents feminine wile. When the gods created women they portrayed the women image into Medusa. Medusa also means ruler, queen, or quardian. In this century women are very mysterious and can lure men into a lot of trouble. Her physical features also resemable a rattle snake which symbolizes rebirth, cycle, fertility, balance, protection, transformation, and both gender. The snake on her heads have these different meaning because in the old movie Clash of the Titans, when Medusa’s head was chopped off, her children arose from her blood. The blood that gave birth to her children symbolizes rebirth from the menstruation system of females. When Medusa’s head gets chopped off the snake symbolizes the balance in life because when one dies others will be born to replace her. Five of Perseus’ men get eliminated by Medusa, and Perseus finally beheads her with the help of a mirror shield. The reflection of the mirror symbolizes self knowledge,and revelation. The mirroring shield foreshadows the relation of a true demigod within him. As Perseus leaves Medusa’s lair he watches Io get stabbed by Calibos. Enraged, Perseus stabs Calibos with a regular sword he picked up from the Argos village. He soon realizes in order to save Io, he may need the help of the gods. Perseus picks up the sword he received from the gods and stabs Calibos with it. Calibos turns into his human form with the last words” Perseus, don’t become one of them.” Io returns to Olympus while Perseus sets off on Pegasus to Argos.
As the eclipse nears, Zeus orders the Kraken to awaken from the underworld to make the villagers fearful of him and to accept him once again. The kraken that is created by Hades is the one who controls and leeches off the fear of humans. The more fearful the citizens are, the weaker Zeus beomces, and the more power Hades will have. Perseus shows Medusa’s head to the Kraken and saves Andromeda. Perseus banishes Hades back into the underworld with the help of his father’s lightning bolted sword. Andromeda asks Perseus to become king of Argos but refuses to become a king. Zeus comes back land and proposes to have him return to Olympus. Perseus accepts his power of a demigod and decides to stay on land to protect those from Hades who may rise again.
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