A Comparative Outlook on Lady Macbeth and Medea By Azade Farahnak From ancient theater of Greece and Rome to modern stylized versions of it‚ stereotypes of monstrous women have always been present; ranging from ancient Greek tragedian Euripides’s Medea to Oscar Wilde’s sexy Salome and 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
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Odyssey vs. Medea Odysseus is sent to Troy to help fight the Trojans in order to win back Helen. In order to help the Greeks Odysseus must leave his wife‚ Penelope‚ and his son‚ Telemachus. Odysseus was gone for many years and in that time face many problems as well as when he was back in Ithaca. Medea is a sorceress who falls in love with Jason and helps him steal the Golden Fleece from her father and escape. Medea and Jason safely reach Greece are married and have two children‚ but Jason leaves
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Medea is driven mad by her love and hatred for her husband‚ Jason. In the story‚ Medea plans to kill Jason‚ Creon‚ and Creon’s daughter who Jason plans to marry. She wants to kill him because he betrays her love; Jason is in love with the power he could possess once he marries the new bride. Medea vows to make Jason suffer the same pain she had suffered. In three particular instances of the play‚ Medea could have stopped her ploy for revenge‚ but she chose not to. The first time Medea could have
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The novel Medea by Euripides is a ancient Greek tragedy based on the myth of Jason and Medea. The hole story is centered on Medea’s actions and even more so on the theme of betrayal. When Jason leaves Princess Medea for another Princess named Corinth‚ Medea becomes vengeful. She enacts her revenge by killing Jason’s mistress and‚ her own children. After all this she leaves to go to Athens Greece. The main focus is on women killing their own children; a term for killing your own child is called maternal
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Hero‚ Even After Medea? Jason‚ a mortal‚ lived a heroic life. He went through adventures‚ and proved to have traits that are common to a hero‚ even though he stumbled at one point in his life. Overall Jason can be considered a hero because he had most characteristics of a hero‚ albeit he does allow Medea to complicate his life. Royalty existed in Jason’s blood. Jason‚ being the son of the king and queen of Iolclus‚ was a royal child. That means he had a noble birth‚ a characteristic that is
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Specificity Despite the fact that Top Girls was written in the fairly recent past‚ and Medea was written in the time of the ancient Greeks‚ the ability for an audience or readership to relate to the content is opposite of what may be expected. Universality makes the ancient Medea relatable to modern audiences‚ and specificity forces Top Girls into a role which illuminates feminism in the 1980s. The key elements of plot in Medea: the philandering husband‚ the woman scorned‚ revenge‚ attempts at bribery‚ and
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and the Odyssey. Both of these ancient authors used strong women in their works. In Euripides Medea‚ the main character of the same name is a force to be reckoned with. The play starts out just after the divorce of Jason and Medea. Jason has left Medea for a younger princess and Medea is the stereotypical woman scorned. The play takes an odd and slightly twisted change of pace when Medea plots revenge on Jason and kills the princess‚ her father‚ and her own two children. Conversely‚ in Homer’s
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Medea is a drama/tragedy play about one unhappiness love written by Euripides who lived in fifth century BC. As we know‚ most myths showing us aspects of human nature. The entire play takes place on the island of Corinth in present day Greece. In the beginning of the book‚ the main heroine‚ Medea‚ starts to threaten revenge on her husband‚ Jason. She states “If I can find the means or devise any scheme to pay my husband back for what he has done to me”. Through this she is just touching on her anger
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In Medea‚ a play by Euripides‚ Jason possesses many traits that lead to his downfall. After Medea assists Jason in his quest to get the Golden Fleece‚ killing her brother and disgracing her father and her native land in the process‚ Jason finds a new bride despite swearing an oath of fidelity to Medea. Medea is devastated when she finds out that Jason left her for another woman after two children and now wants to banish her. Medea plots revenge on Jason after he gives her one day to leave. Medea later
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Hell Hath No Fury like Medea Scorned In Euripides’s Medea‚ revenge can lead to destructive actions. This theme is a central part to the tragedy‚ mostly because it pops up time and time again. Euripides‚ through the use of motif‚ makes Medea’s desire for revenge seem conceivable. Not only has Jason left her by marrying Creon’s daughter‚ but Creon has exiled her from Corinth because she “nourish[es] rancorous ill will toward [Jason and Creusa] whom [he] intends to protect” (Euripides 92). The protagonist
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