Medea The Sanctity of Oaths Through the play Medea‚ Euripides shows us the importance of keeping a promise given. At the beginning of the story‚ we see the play’s two opposing views of promise keeping represented by the Nurse and the Tutor. As she stands outside of Medea’s house and laments the way Jason has slighted Medea by taking another wife‚ the Nurse speaks of the “eternal promise” Jason and Medea made to each other on their wedding day (17-21). The Nurse wishes
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Cinderella’s step-mother. In the current paper‚ two characters are compared due to the limitations of space assigned. The two characters are Lady Macbeth and Medea. The former is a character in Shakespeare’s play‚ Macbeth‚ and the latter a character by Euripides in a play by the same name. Both plays are tragedies and both of these characters are called evil in many anthologies and essays. Even painters have brutally portrayed these characters as she devils with horrible faces. But calling them simply
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beings‚ for instance‚ being a human implies understanding the pain of the betrayal but being able to betray nevertheless. Euripides in his plays illustrated it both by male and female characters. In fact‚ it is necessary to pay attention to the way how ancient Greek authors were able to depict women accurately demonstrating the ambivalence of their nature in the play Medea by Euripides. The author could depict all the possible varieties of female behavior‚ and in some cases it might be difficult to understand
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in life to men‚ who tended to be demanding of their wives‚ but expected them to adhere to their wishes. In the tragedy Medea‚ written by Euripides‚ Medea plays the major role in this story‚ unlike most Greek stories with women playing only minor roles‚ but she also demonstrates many behavioral and psychological patterns unlike any other Greek women. In Euripides’ Medea the main character‚ Medea‚ Displays many traits that breakdown traditional Athenian misogyny by displaying her as proactive in taking
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manipulative ways result in the unnecessary death of a king‚ and her ferventness is the main cause of distress for every single character involved in the tragedy. The tragedy of Medea is without a doubt one of the best of the ancient Greek‚ and Euripides’ use of themes in the play is what drew me towards Medea as opposed to the other myths assigned to us. Intelligence is one main theme that seems to play a large role in the fate of
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The Trojan Women is a Greek tragedy by Euripides. He explores the hardships faced by the women of Troy after their land had been destroyed by the loss of the Trojan War. In the play‚ the women were faced with various difficulties. They were not only meant to deal with the horrors of the war like the death of their loved ones and their city in ruins but were also faced with the terror of what their future will hold. They yearn for revenge and the hope that life will recover in the future. Awoken
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Women through Euripides Alcestis In ancient Greece there were separate gender roles. Women were expected to act a certain way. They had many limitations in their life. How they were supposed to act was regulated by Greek men. Euripides creates a tragedy that has a positive tone through its main character Alcestis. Alcestis is shown as a perfect submissive wife capable of making tremendous personal sacrifices. She is seen as a positive force‚ more so than real Greek women were. Euripides was a play
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the younger contemporary of Sophocles was Euripides. They wrote the same genre but incorporated there own styles and unique ideas with in their brilliant plays. They have all impacted to days theatre in their own ways creating diverse genres that today’s authors may choose to use. Aeschylus 525-426 bc. Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or preformed‚ the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy:
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ON TEACHING EURIPIDES’ MEDEA K.O. Chong-Gossard Euripides’ Medea remains one of the most often performed Greek tragedies today‚ and one of the favourite tragedies for secondary school students to read in Classics or English courses. Since there is a tremendous amount of scholarship already published on this play of plays‚ this article is intended to provide a quick reminder of the background to the play‚ a discussion of the character of the chorus and the character of Medea‚ and thus a variety
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Medea (Greek: Μήδεια / Mēdeia) is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides‚ based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened‚ and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman. Euripides produced the Medea along with Philoctetes‚ Dictys and the satyr play Theristai‚ winning the third prize (out of three) at the City Dionysia festival
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