Medea and Electra Group

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abramjian
abramjian
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High School - 9th Grade

Which characters die in "Medea" and "Electra," and what is their background?

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Posted by abramjian on Thursday August 7, 2008 at 1:30 PM and tagged with characters, deaths, medea and electra, murder, plot.

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  1. linda-allen Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

    eNotes Editor

    These plays are full of death. Here are lists of the characters who die, or are thought to die, in each play.

    Medea

    • Creusa/Glauce--Medea soaks two golden robes in poison; Creusa dies when she wears one.
    • Creon--he dies from the same poisoned robes while helping Creusa.
    • the two boys--Medea stabs her own sons to death just to hurt Jason, their father.

    Electra

    • although not a character in this play, the play opens with Electra mourning the death of her father, Agamemnon (who was murdered by his own wife, Clytemnestra);
    • there is a false report that Orestes has been killed in a chariot race;
    • Clytemnestra, mother of Electra and Orestes, is killed by Orestes at Electra's urging
    • Aegisthus, Clytemnestra's lover, is murdered by Orestes

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    http://www.enotes.com/medea/character-analysis

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    Posted by linda-allen on Friday August 8, 2008 at 4:37 PM

  2. mrg1956
    mrg1956 Student
    College - Senior

    In the play of Euripides the characters who dies are the children, the two boys.  It was at the hands of the mother in which they die. 

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    Posted by mrg1956 on Wednesday November 11, 2009 at 1:09 PM