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Loss Of Sympathy For Medea
1,046 wordsFeminism in Medea The play Medea by Euripides challenges the dominant views of femininity in the patriarchal society of the Greeks. While pursuing her ambition Medea disregards many of the feminine stereotypes / characteristics of the patriarchal Greek society. She questions the inequality of women in a patriarchal society, contradicts Jason's chauvinist beliefs, challenges the stereotype that women are weak and passive and completely disregards the feminine role of motherhood. Feminism is the b...
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Medea's Wretched Poison
1,114 wordsMedea: Guilty as Charged Men of Corinth, I am here today to confirm who is solely responsible for the death of four innocent victims. Medea. She mischievously murdered the king and his daughter, then proceeded to brutally violate the little bodies of her own children. Some of you may argue that outside factors coerced her to act irrationally. She wants you to believe that pain and suffering caused by Jason's disloyalty drove her mad enough to act out so rashly. However, her selfishness compelled...
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Teeth Jason
1,391 wordsCadmus in Myth Zeus, under the disguise of a bull, had carried away Europa, the daughter of Agenor, the King of Phoenicia. Agenor commanded his son Cadmus to go in search of his sister, and not to return without her. Cadmus went and sought long and far for his sister, but could not find her, and not daring to return unsuccessful, consulted the oracle of Apollo to know what country he should settle in. The oracle informed him that he should find a cow in the field, and should follow her wherever ...
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Medea's Desire To Exact Revenge On Jason
2,077 wordsMedea, a play by the Greek playwright Euripides, explores the Greek-barbarian dichotomy through the character of Medea, a princess from the " barbarian', or non-Greek, land of Colchis. Throughout the play, it becomes evident to the reader that Medea is no ordinary woman by Greek standards. Central to the whole plot is Medea's barbarian origins and how they are related to her actions. In this paper, I am attempting to answer questions such as how Medea behaves like a female, how she acts heroical...
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Four Characteristics Of A Tragic Hero
540 wordsA Hero of Another Kind The tragic hero is usually not like an everyday person that is seen on the street. According to Aristotle's book, Poetics, four characteristics establish the essence of a tragic hero. This is very helpful in understanding why the tragic hero is a mediocre type of person. First of all the hero must belong to a distinguished family. Secondly he must be a-better-than average person. Next the hero must suffer from a flaw in his character or in his judgement otherwise known as ...
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Harm Of Medea's Children
1,117 wordsMedea is the tragic tale of a woman scorned. It was written in 431 B.C. by the Greek playwright, Euripides. Eruipides was the first Greek poet to suffer the fate of so many of the great modern writers: rejected by most of his contemporaries (he rarely won first prize and was the favorite target for the scurrilous humor of the comic poets), he was universally admired and revered by the Greeks of the centuries that followed his death ('Norton Anthology'; ). Euripides showed his interest in psychol...
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Jason Can Revenge
668 wordsRevenge A Cause for Murder Is revenge a reasonable cause for murder Medea gives her whole soul and life to the devotion of the man she loves so dearly only to be betrayed by him. Come, flame of the sky, Pierce through my head! What do I gain from living any longer Oh, how I hate living! I want to end my life, leave it behind, and die. P. 840 Her pain was so great that her life no longer meant anything to her. She was obsessed with the hurt and badly wanted to inflect this horrible pain on the ma...
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Caring Jason
1,999 wordsIt seems that the nearly all critics of Medea are unanimous in one prominent feature of the play alone, and that is in their immense abhorrence for Jason. Kit to says 'In him (Jason) it is impossible to find anything that is not mean, while Lucas says 'Jason is utterly selfish, and utterly unconscious of his selfishness'. It is hard to find anything kind about Jason as on face value he is such an obvious villain. But all these comments on the Medea centre round a study of Medea herself, while ma...
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Medea's Logos
637 wordsMuch of what has been written on slavery in Euripides has to do with the captive women taken in the Trojan War. But even ordinary household slaves like Medea's Nurse may 'betray characteristics of the free which the free themselves do not possess' (N.T. Cro ally, Euripidean Polemic, Cambridge, 1994: 102-3) and in this way cast some light on the status of their masters and what the slave / free definition means in the play and in a wider context. In the Nurse's opening speech the slave's voice is...
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Womens In The Play Medea By Euripides
1,157 wordsWomen's lives are represented by the roles they either choose or have imposed on them. This is evident in the play Medea by Euripides through the characters of Medea and the nurse. During the time period which Medea is set women have very limited social power and no political power at all, although a women's maternal and domestic power was respected in the privacy of the home, "Our lives depend on how his lordship feels". The limited power these women were given is different to modern society ye...
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Medea's Cruel And Savage Passions
1,138 wordsA&H Paper Number 1 Todd MacDowell September 26, 1999 Prof. Waite In ancient Greece women were viewed as many things. They were not viewed as equivalent to males by any means. Women were portrayed usually as submissive domestic, and controlled. They played supporting or secondary roles 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 storie...
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Medea And Hedda
1,094 wordsMedea vs. Hedda Gabbler Medea and Hedda Gabbler are two different plays, yet both have very similar motives in the end. Both women seek to control the destiny of the men in their lives. The reasons are not by the decision of either women, but by the hands of Fate, something out of their control. Both women are respectively different, with different degrees of action and success. Two women needing to control destiny bring two very different motives together. Medea and Hedda have two very differen...
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Medea Aides Jason And The Argonauts
1,821 wordsThe Voyage of Argo Adventures of epic proportions have been written and told for thousands of years. The characteristics of these stories include, suspense, adventure, danger, and heroism. They mostly involve a task that needs to be completed. Whatever it may be, very few tales are able to take all characteristics of a good adventure and put it all into one story like The Voyage of Argo, by Apollonius. The Voyage of Argo is about a man named Jason who bands together a group of extraordinary warr...
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Medea's Actions During The Play
738 wordsMedea The Greek tragedy Medea is a tale of a woman scorn and the wrath that follows. The story is one of outright deceit, crippling revenge and questionable justice. It is typical of Greek tragedies in its simplicity, but atypical in the way it justifies horrific revenge. Medea is one of Euripides' most enduring plays. It and only a handful of others have survived the several thousand years since their conception. Medea is a typical Greek tragedy. The opening monologue sets the stage for the res...
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Jason In Jasons Speech To Medea
534 wordsBrandi Childs Dr. Fitch Feb. 14 2001 World Literature I Jason In Jasons speech to Medea, he blames the love goddess for his entire problem. He says that Cyprus is responsible for everything. He also tells Medea that she has taken more than she has given. He compliments her on her cleverness but he also brings her faults to her attention... I can prove you have certainly got from me more that you gave (ll. 524). He tells her that she came in to a Greek land and adapted as though she was Greek als...
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Selfishness Of Jason In Medea
678 wordsOften, we can be found talking about how our friends have changed. "He / she just isn't the same person as he / she used to be", is a common complaint heard. Yet, have they truly changed that much, though In Euripides' play Medea, a good case could be made of the difference in character that occurred throughout the play. However, the depictions of Jason's personality traits were quite consistent during his existence. He was driven by a force focused completely around one thing -- himself. In the...
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Barbarian Medea
1,210 wordsA Civilized Barbarian The term "Barbarian" is Greek in origin. The Greeks originally levied it at any races who were not of a Greek origin; especially those who threatened Greek civilization and culture. Because most of these "strangers" regularly assaulted Greek cities, the term "barbarian" gradually evolved into a rude term: a person who was a sub-human, uncivilized, and regularly practiced the most vile and inhuman acts imaginable. It is obvious that a barbarian has not been considered as a m...
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Jason The Fleece And Medea
3,143 wordsIn considering women's history in Greek Drama, one name always comes to mind. Medea remains an influential character in the story of a time where mythological tales intertwine with true history. Euripides' Medea is a play that was written to save the reputation of the Greek city of Corinth. It is a controversial play charting the pain of a woman in love who knows not how to deal with the tempestuous loss of her husband, Jason, a man whom she gave the world to. The original story was close to tha...
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Medea And Antigone
593 wordsMedea and Antigone are two stories of women fighting back for what they want, or what they feel is right. These stories take place in ancient Greece, around the time of its rise to power. Medea and Antigone are both strong, sometimes-manipulative characters but have different moral settings that control what they do. Medea is often very demanding in getting what it is that she wants; Antigone, will do what she need to do in order to get what she wants. With Antigone she is defies the law of a ki...
