Although Euripides play Medea creates feelings of fear in the audience‚ it also creates feeling of pity in the audience as well. Medea is firstly portrayed as a pitiful woman whose problem is much bigger than her own life. Facing the fact that she will be exiled very soon and the fact that she has nowhere to go‚ combined with her abhorrence towards her enemies‚ she starts to devise a plan that not only will set her free from her problems but also will cost a fortune to her enemies. But the audience
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In the play‚ Medea‚ translated by Robinson Jeffers‚ Medea is presented with many choices. These choices have big impacts on her and her peers’ lives. When reading‚ it felt like a children’s scary story where you were able to chose your own fate. Medea had many opportunities to chose her own outcome. Through her choices‚ she created great pain and a great story. First‚ the all-female chorus held many representations in the play. When they sang and said what they felt‚ no actions were taken to help
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& Comp 6th hour 2 November 2012 The Character of Achilles Achilles is the main character in Homer’s The Iliad translated by Robert Fagles. The Iliad is the story of the battle of Troy‚ in which Greek heroes fight and die‚ with much interference from the various gods and goddesses. The story ends when Achilles gives Hector’s body back to King Priam and Hector is buried. Homer uses a number of different literary devices to illustrate Achilles’ character development‚ such as his actions‚ what other
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The role and Significance of Hubris in the fall of Jason As is archetypal to all Greek tragedies‚ ‘Medea’ by Euripides chronicles the downfall of a noble hero‚ Jason‚ as a result of a combination of factors like fate‚ hubris and the will of the gods. In ‘Medea’‚ the hubris of the main character‚ Jason‚ was his pride. This drove him to betray his wife Medea’s trust and defy moral parameters set by the gods. Euripides employed the hubris of Jason and his act of disobedience towards the gods as a reflection
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Medea Evaluation On Tuesday the 15th of October 2013‚ we went to the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury to watch ‘Medea’ a modern adaptation of the Greek Mythology and an ancient Greek tragedy‚ which was produced by the ‘Floods of Ink Theatre Company’. Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy that involves themes such as lust‚ passion‚ love‚ danger‚ betrayal‚ jealousy and revenge. All of themes being ones that capture the audience‚ as they are often something that people can relate to feeling. Medea tells
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Cited: 1. Crudden‚ Michael. The Homeric hymns. Oxford: Oxford University Press‚ 2001. Print. 2. Raeburn‚ D. A.. Metamorphoses: a new verse translation. London: Penguin‚ 2004. Print. 3. Apollodorus‚ Gods and Heroes of the Greeks: The Library of Apollodorus. M. Simpson‚ trans. Amherst: 1976.
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The Sherpas are the real heroes because they have risked their own lives every time they have tackled the world’s highest mountain. In fact‚ they are the ones who do most of the heavy duties for the individuals. Many have died by doing this job‚ such as when an expeditioner named
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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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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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In Euripides’ play “Medea” the main character is a powerful‚ but controversial woman – Medea herself. Reading the story some people might be confused with the actions that the protagonist decides to take. She is violent‚ vindictive‚ bloody and seemingly crazy. By looking at actions alone‚ Medea would certainly be considered evil. However‚ the author creates a character decidedly more complex. We can see it through the background story of the character and development of the play’s plot. That is
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