First entry

We are living in a world of distended social upheaval and discontent; a world where what we think and believe are entirely different principles to our immediate and resulting actions.
We are living in a world where certain individuals hold vast fortunes which they fritter away upon possessions which affirm their great wealth, yet millions are starved by their terrible poverty.
Somewhere along the way, regardless of the many successes and developments of the human race, an aspect of our conscience, a higher level of humanity has been lost.
To see what is missing, all we need look at are the glorious tales of the heroic acts depicted throughout the antiquities of Ancient History; regailing the selfless sacrifices, great strength and courage of the heroic, god-like figures who battle on through scenes of horror, fighting for the freedom of body, mind and soul.
However, although these conflicts were often fought for higher, nobler purposes, the carnage of these great battles showed within the sufferings of the ordinary people who fought and died, or became entangled in the bloodbaths which ensued. The great images of ancient heroes do not portray the horrific reality of such scenes... yet prehaps this is what gives them so much power to capture the imagination and enthallment of those who view them.
One such tale of ancient heroism however has a uniquely interesting and considerably more peaceful conclusion; the tale of the intervention of the Sabine women between the soldiers of Rome and the men of Sabine.
Three years previously to the confrontation, the Romans had kidnapped the women of Sabine and forced them to marry and reproduce to ensure the continuation of the great Roman civilisation.
Furious at the rape of their women, the Sabines eventually launched an attack upon the Romans. However during the kidnap and the battle, the Sabine women had given birth to Roman sons and therefore formed an attatchment to their captors, so in a bid to appeal to the better nature and sense of empathy of the men they placed themselves and their infant children in the midst of the battle.
This act of intervention resulted in an end to the battle, and in embracing one another, the great peoples of both nations united and became one.

Nothing higlights the conflictions of the intervention as predicament of Hersilia; daugther of Tatius, King of the Sabines, and now wife to Romulus the leader of Rome (by whom she bore a daughter and a son). Whoever is victorious, she loses someone she loves dearly.
Although the intervention in this legendary instance was successful, the tragedy of this image of great tension, this magnetic pull that could be forced into either direction, brings to light the painful position which the socially constructed family values can place upon which women find themselves irreversably trapped within...