International Baccalaureate Diploma Program World Literature Assignment 1 The use of children as props in August Strindberg’s “The Father” and Euripides’s “Medea” Candidate Name: Aasir Tavawala Candidate Number: 2228-043 Level: English A1 HL Session: May 2012 School: Podar International School Word Count: 1‚220 words The relationship between a parent and a child is usually described as one of unconditional love. In the plays mentioned above‚ parents manipulate their influence over
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Macbeth" and "Madea" Comparison Essay by JPWrite Description: This paper examines how Shakespeare’s "Macbeth" and Euripides’ "Medea" are both tragic plays in the classical sense. It looks at how both Medea and Macbeth lust for the unattainable and how that lust destroys them. It cannot be said which character is a truly tragic figure‚ because both fit the description. It contends that if either character deserves more sympathy it is Madea‚ the jilted wife‚ not Macbeth the King killer since Macbeth’s
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Oedipus the King Jocasta is Oedipus’s wife and mother‚ and Creon’s sister. In her first words‚ she attempts to make peace between Oedipus and Creon‚ pleading with Oedipus not to banish Creon. She is comforting to her husband and calmly tries to urge him to reject Tiresias’s terrifying prophecies as false. Jocasta solves the riddle of Oedipus’s identity before Oedipus does‚ and she expresses her love for her son and husband in her desire to protect him from this knowledge (Sophocles‚ 1999). Othello
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Medea‚ in ’Medea’‚ and Nora‚ in ’A Doll’s House’‚ are both women who seem to suffer badly at the hands of their husbands in two male-dominated societies; the former in ancient Greece‚ the latter in nineteenth century Norway. Each does something important for her husband involving personal sacrifice‚ for which she expects certain treatment in return‚ but when this is not forthcoming‚ how do they react? Do they accept the roles of conventional wives‚ demure and weak? Or do they rebel and behave unconventionally
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‘Jason is punished more than Medea in Euripides’ play’. DiscussJason is the real criminal in Medea‚ do you agree? In the play Medea written by Euripides‚ the patriarchal society of ancient Greece is examined and the role of women in a male centred society is explored. In this world where “the middle way‚” or moderation in all things is valued and reason and logic are seen to be the ideal‚ there is no room for passion or emotion which further limits the value of women. In response to Jason’s
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Two Tragic Heroes Are Better Than One In many Greek tragedies‚ there will be one tragic hero and one tragic hero only. However‚ in Euripides’ drama Medea there are two tragic heroes within one story. One of these heroes is who the play is titled after‚ Medea. The other tragic hero is Medea’s ex-husband and father of her children‚ Jason. To be classified as a tragic hero‚ a character must present certain qualities such as‚ a royal status (king‚ queen‚ princess‚ prince etc.)‚ an extraordinary power
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Medea Medea is a character existing outside of the typical Greek value and social systems that existed in the Greek Polis’s at the time of the play’s inception. She is strong willed‚ powerful‚ intelligent‚ cunning‚ volatile and independent. She possesses many traits and characteristics reserved and associated with Greek heroes in other plays common at the time. It could be possible to assume that a typical Greek audience of the time (likely predominantly male) would find this character absurd
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A Comparison of a Tragic Hero from Euripides’s Medea and Aeschylus’s Agamemnon Tragic heroes from Greek tragedies almost always share similar characteristics. Medea from Euripides’s play Medea and Clytemnestra from Aeschylus’s play Agamemnon display and share traits common to a tragic hero. They both have a flaw‚ hold a high rank or have an extraordinary ability‚ seek vengeance‚ and cause their own downfall anothers suffering. All of these traits are displayed clearly in these characters and
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The Image of Women and Feminity in Euripides’ Medea and Alcestis The tragedies from the Ancient Greek world often reflect how the Greeks perceived their environment and what was important to them. Many of those tragedies present images of women and the feminity; Medea and Alcestis are two of them. Medea tells the story of a barbarian woman who killed her brother and left her home country to marry Jason‚ a man who will later abandon her and their children to take a princess for spouse. Alcestis
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The brutal course of revenge which Medea exacts on Jason may suggest that in the pursuit of revenge‚ one render any prospect of attaining justice to be void. However in an indirect way‚ Medea ’s course of revenge which implicates the lives of innocents‚ exerts a punishment on her. Ultimately‚ the fact that Medea is not directly subjected to a punishment for her extreme course of her revenge is attributable to her ancestry - she is the grand-daughter of the Sun-God. This nullifies any suggestion that
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