~THE MORTAL SKEPTIC~ How Euripides Portrays the Gods in Electra‚ Medea and Hecuba to be Inconsequential General comments: “way” “different” – be less ambiguous; don’t use words like “terrible” when you mean “immoral‚” you can say that things are corrupt in like 500 different ways—use them!!! degrades the character of…. Fraudulent actions…. Irreligious/godless etc Vary your sentence structure‚ easiest way to do this is to use active voice To vary your sentences: instead of “this focuses
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Medea was a very passionate women with a tendency to become easily angered. Her anger from being wronged by Jason is shown when she wishes "...Jason and his bride/Ground to pieces in their shattered palace/For the wrong they have declared to do..."(Euripides 6). Clytemnestras flaw was that she could not see past her own grief‚ anger‚ and how her husband had killed their daughter. Her anger and grief are displayed by her emotional words‚ "Like a swan she wailed her last call for her loved one while
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Euripides wrote Medea as a sort of promotion for his ideas. In it‚ he emphasized the gods‚ which he believed the people of Greece were ignoring. He also made sure to highlight the issues with the treatment of women. To do this‚ he took a commonly despised character‚ Medea‚ and warped the initial story of Jason and the Golden Fleece to show it from a female perspective. By making Medea the focus of the story‚ Euripides was able to explore the problems Greek women of the time faced. Though classic
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Study If you are not familiar with the conventions and settings for Greek tragedy‚ Tragedy: The Basics or Introduction to Greek Tragedy will help you get oriented. You may also find this video helpful: Introduction to Medea Required Reading Euripides’ Medea - a presentation 1. What background facts do we learn from the Nurse’s opening speech? 2. What new trouble has the Tutor heard of? 3. Why does the Nurse fear for Medea’s children? 4. Why does the Nurse say she prefers not to be great
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various deities. The second part describes the contest between Aeschylus and Euripides and conceits chiefly of passages quoted by the two poets from the respectable words. The criticism of two playwrights is concentrated in the agony and the sins that follows Aeschylus is satirized for his bombastic language‚ blood curdling sentences‚ lengthy coral words and obscurity in exposition. The main criticism is directed at Euripides. He is attacked for his use of rhetoric psynopathos‚ rationalism‚ his reduction
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Aeschylus‚ Sophocles‚ and Euripides Great Tragedians Humanities 250 May 30‚ 2012 The three great tragedy play writes Aeschylus‚ Sophocles‚ and Euripides were ahead of their time. The ideals they portrayed in their plays are very relevant in this day and age. Love‚ loss‚ religion‚ politics suffering‚ being victims of fate; these are all things we hear about each time we turn on the news. The messages that were written into each play by each play write would be related to‚ understood and very
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Cypris comes‚ there is no other power at all so gracious" (Euripides). In the play Medea by Euripides‚ Medea is driven entirely by passion and fury and does not consider the consequences of what she is doing. She is so focused on her desire for vengeance that she does not stop to deem if what she is doing is right or wrong. Others around her do not console her but instead push Medea into her excessive nature. In the play Medea by Euripides‚ Medea allows others to rule her conscience which results
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In novels and play writes such as Barbara Kingsolver’s‚ The Poisonwood Bible and Euripides‚ Medea‚ the theme Role of women arises: women in many societies are subjugated and displayed as the inferior gender‚ when they are truly the strongest; they carry all the pain and suffering of society‚ the wars and the deaths; thus they are the pedestal that keeps everyone up. In order to reveal theme Kingsolver and Euripides make use of literary devices such as symbolism‚ imagery and diction. Using all three
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to men. On the other hand‚ some thought this subject fascinating such as Euripides‚ who clearly shows this through his play Medea. Through his play‚ he shows the position of women and their subordination to men which was important in Greek society. Even though Athens‚ for example‚ was considered as a place‚ freer‚ than the rest of Greece was nevertheless a city that depended on slave labor and the oppression of women. Euripides wants to show the difficulties that befall women‚ however‚ his main character
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struggle because of some flaw within his character. That struggle results in the fall of the hero. Aristotle defines the tragic hero in his work titled Poetics‚ which expands upon the definition of a tragic hero. The short story “Medea‚” written by Euripides‚ and the play “Hamlet‚” written by Shakespeare‚ both present the reader with a tragic hero. “Medea” is the ideal story in which one can see the tragic hero‚ and this can be contrasted to “Hamlet” in order to see how Aristotle’s definition of a tragic
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