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Medea
Medea, the play, is a a work about power and passion. The negative aspect of it at first glance most easily found in the character of Medea, who can be seen as an almost barbaric woman, driven by...
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Medea
Break it down before you get started. Making an outline is always helpful. The first thing you have to do is choose your character. Think about the things you have read--is there a character that...
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Medea
The attitude displayed by Medea is not necessarily all that different from what is felt and displayed by some women today. The strong-minded, half-supernatural Medea was just an extreme case; but...
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Medea
Medea plays on the weaknesses of those around her and uses flattery and self-deprecation to advance her plans. The first instance of Medea's cunning is in her manipulation of Creon. She plays upon...
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Medea
Medea, as portrayed by Euripides and other ancient authors, was not intended as a positive role model in any manner whatsoever, nor is she an example of female empowerment. If anything, she is...
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Medea
Prologue: This is the introductory scene to a play. Usually it involves a limited number of characters that explain the necessary history to understand the current drama. In Medea this would be the...
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Macbeth
One possible way to deal with constructing a thesis is to think about how attitudes towards women and witchcraft have changed over time. Your selection of texts covers almost the entire history of...
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Medea
When describing women, the Greek historian Thucydides argued that women should be "spoken of as little as possible among men, whether for good or for ill." The Classical construction of women was...
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Medea
Euripides does not endow the Chorus in Medea with much in way of transformative power. The role of the Chorus is to communicate the destructive levels of human action between Jason and Medea. In...
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Medea
One point of comparison between both Clytemnestra and Medea is that both of them feel wronged by their husbands. Clytemnestra feels that Agamemnon has committed unspeakable acts towards her. She...
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Agamemnon
Agamemnon and Medea are two intense characters in Greek literature. Much of what they offer represent the very essence of human definition. In both good and bad terms, they embody the reality of...
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Medea
Both women are shown as extremely strong. However, their strength is limited by the conditions in which they live. Their demonstrations of power are not active solutions based on strength....
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Medea
Through the situation of Medea, the generally inferior status of women in the ancient world is vividly highlighted. Medea at first comes across as a character to be sympathized with in her...
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Medea
Freud said that the Greek play Oedipus Rex was effective because it dealt with a basic human instinct. A boy unconsciously wishes to murder his father and marry his mother. The play Medea also...
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Medea
When the play begins, the relationship between Jason and Medea has already turned sour - and it goes on to develop into a full-blown mutual antagonism, with tragic, indeed horrifying consequences....
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Medea
I will answer a few of your questions here. Like Circe, Medea is well-known for being a sorceress, but in this play she is less dependent on her magical powers than on her all-consuming desire for...
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Medea
Euripides' Medea tells of the trials and tribulations Medea faces through supporting Jason, taking care of her family, and finding solace in her revenge. One could support Medea's actions in two...
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Medea
What makes answering the question of what makes the eponymous protagonist of Euripides' play Medea a tragic heroine somewhat complicated is that the term "heroine" is being applied...
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Medea
As Jason enters for the first time, the antagonism between husband and wife is already evident. Jason's first words reflect this in terms of speaking of Medea's "evil" condition. Their antagonism...
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Medea
When looking at the characters of Medea and Jason, you can make many comparisons, which can turn into some very interesting essays. Here are some suggestions. The first thing that you can do is...
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Medea
When writing an essay about Jason and Medea, there are many points of comparisons that you can make. I suggest that you pick one comparison and make it into your thesis. From this point, think of...
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Medea
In Euripides' Medea, the title character discovers that her husband Jason is going to divorce her and marry the daughter of Creon, who is the king of Corinth. Initially, Creon decides that Medea...
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Medea
The original question had to be edited. I would suggest that Medea's views about women affect her relationships with other women in the narrative significantly. Part of the challenge is that...
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Medea
I don't see the Chorus' praising of Athens as something in the form of nationalism or political zeal. Their praise of Athens is more of a validation of how moderation and a sense of control must...
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Medea
In many respects, the significance of the Nurse suggesting that she does not prefer to be great speaks to the humility that Euripides suggests is needed in being a human being. In the opening of...
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Medea
Euripides had a tradition of not just supporting the cause of women, but also of slaves, and it is interesting that in some ways the Nurse in this play is presented as being the most sensible and...
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Medea
It is not easy to justify Jason's course of action. Euripides metes out a great deal of responsibility for why Medea is the way she is because of Jason's actions. There is a great deal of...
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Medea
The character of Medea in this play is very quickly established as a figure who is both an outsider in that she does not belong in Corinth, and also as a barbarian through the extent of her...
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Medea
The Chorus pivots in its emotional reaction to the events of the drama. At the exposition, the Chorus shows sympathy to the wrongs done to Medea. They express lament to what has happened to her....
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Medea
The story of Medea and her dangerous passion for Jason, and the extreme actions she commits as a result, represent a warning to the original audience of Euripedes. One of the central themes is that...
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Medea
I do not necessarily Medea's actions as reflective of a statement on the Hellenistic Greek world view. I think that in order for this to be the case, there needs to be a complete affirmation that...
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Medea
Aegeus is the King of Athens. Unfortunately, he is childless, and Medea offers to cast a spell to remedy this situation if he will promise to grant her asylum in Athens. This scene serves to remind...
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Medea
Euripides' Medea makes several points about marriage and loyalty. Relatively early in the play, Medea says:Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive....
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Medea
In the period in which Euripides' Medea was composed, one of the most important virtues was considered to be self-control or moderation (sophrosune). This was considered a particular virtue of the...
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Medea
Going to a play in ancient Greek times was as much a religious/social experience as an entertainment event. Physically, the open amphitheatres provided plenty of democratic opportunities for class...
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Medea
The portraits of Clytemnestra in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Medea in Euripides' Medea do not necessarily reflect what would have been the playwrights' attitudes towards ordinary women in classical...
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Medea
I think that Euripides is suggesting that unchecked revenge hurts more than the intended target. The Chorus does not deny Medea's voice and understands her anger and her bitterness towards Jason...
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Medea
The sense of control and sense of deliberation that the Nurse possesses is something that Medea lacks. These traits are evident in the selection of lines featured. The Nurse is one who favors a...
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Medea
To the original audience, Medea's rage in Medea by Euripides, would have seen unjustified. It would have been viewed as an example, though, of the failings of women, in general, to control their...
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Medea
Foreshadowing is a literary device that can be employed to give readers and audience members hints at what is to come. Foreshadowing can be created through "imagery, language and/or symbolism"...
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Medea
Euripides' Medea was first staged in 431 BCE in Athens. Although modern audiences regard it as one of Euripides' finest plays, it did not receive critical acclaim from the ancient judges, who...
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Medea
If we look at Euripides' Medea, which was originally staged in 431 B.C.E., from the perspective of Aristotle's Poetics, written at least five decades later, then we can only conclude that...
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Medea
Euripides' Medea dramatizes, on some level, a barbarian woman's battle against and within the male power structure of mythical Greece. Euripides labels the chorus in this play as consisting of...
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Medea
In Euripides' play, first staged in 431 BCE, the playwright makes a "witch" his title character. Medea is a sorceress of the highest caliber. Most of the supernatural aspects of the play occur near...
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Medea
Euripides' Medea was first staged in 431 BCE in Athens. This year was an important one because it marked the beginning of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her...
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Medea
In Euripides' Medea, several women other than Medea are represented. We have Medea's nurse, who delivers the prologue; the women of Corinth, who make up the Chorus; and Creon's daughter, who does...
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Medea
In ancient times, Euripides was known as the philosopher of the stage and so, yes, I would certainly say that any of his plays are filled with "ideas." Modern readers of Euripides' Medea need to...
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Medea
This question strikes me as rather challenging, since I probably would not consider her a victim of the gods nor would I consider her as being cursed by the gods. Later in the play, Medea will have...
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Medea
There are two main ways in which Euripides make Medea more sympathetic to the audience than Seneca. First, Euripides makes Medea into a victim, who acts out of her pain. She is the one who is...
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Medea
Seneca's Medea differs from Euripides' Medea in that Euripides' feels the horror of her act but is overwhelmed with raging emotions against humiliation and against letting someone else have and...