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  • Medea Plans
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    In Euripides' Medea, the protagonist abandoned the gender roles of ancient Greek society. Medea defied perceptions of gender by exhibiting both 'male' and 'female' tendencies. She was able to detach herself from her 'womanly' emotions at times and perform acts that society did not see women capable of doing. However, Medea did not fully abandon her role as a woman and did express many female emotions throughout the play. In ancient Greek society, murder was not commonly associated with women. Th...
  • Sins Of Othello And Medea
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    Throughout many great works of literature there are numerous characters whose acts are either moral or immoral. In the works Euripides 'Medea', Shakespeare's 'Othello' and Boccaccio's Decameron, 'Tenth Day, Tenth Story', the main characters all carry out actions which in today's day and age would be immoral and inexcusable. Medea takes on the most immoral act, in Euripides great tragic work. The morale of today varies greatly with that of the time periods in which these works were written. Gualt...
  • Medea's Husband Jason
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    Euripides Medea I see Medea as a woman who took a chance and stood up for herself. The kind of behavior that Medea displays was very rare for these times: she doesn't accept the dramatic change in her life; she does something about it. On the other hand, Medea becomes so obsessed she loses herself to revenge. Medea is only heroic to an extent. Medea's thirst for revenge begins when she finds out about her husbands unfaithfulness. Medea's husband Jason decides to marry the princess Glauce to esta...
  • Medea's Cruel And Savage Passions
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    A&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...
  • Creon Plans To Exile Medea
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    Title of work- Medea Country / Culture- Greek Literary Period- Classical Type of literature (genre) - Drama / Tragedy Author- Euripedes Authorial information- Euripedes lived from ca. 485 to ca. 406 B.C. making him younger thank Aeschylus and Sophocles, and making him the last of the great writers of tragedy in the golden age of Athens. His emphasis on human emotions and the psychology of individuals has proven more widely popular than philosophical beliefs shown in his older contemporary works....

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