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How Euripides Portrays the Gods in Electra, Medea and Hecuba to be Inconsequential
General comments: “way” “different” – be less ambiguous; don’t use words like “terrible” when you mean “immoral,” you can say that things are corrupt in like 500 different ways—use them!!! degrades the character of…. Fraudulent actions…. Irreligious/godless etc
Vary your sentence structure, easiest way to do this is to use active voice
To vary your sentences: instead of “this focuses on ___more than Euripedes version” just say this focuses on ___ or this deemphasizes ____ in place of ____
The Athenian dramatists Aeschylus and Sophocles, although their interpretations of the Greek Orestia myth diverge, generally portray a moral universe in which gods directly influence human lives and ensure divine retribution for the injustices of menman. Euripides, by in contrast, normally does not. He is different because he deflates the role of the gods. In his plays there is no mention of divine intervention and justice is not generally as honorable. The revenge is n Euripides is cynical about the gods power or will to intervene, so they never appear as physical characters in his stories and characters mention them less often. His archetypes are all petty, cowardly or excessively violent. Euripides 's "Electra", "Medea" and "Hecuba" all focus on wicked revenge in an immoral world to question whether or not the gods can or will influence mortal affairs. In Aeschylus and Sophocles, , furthermore, the gods motivate the main characters to commit their revenge as a mortal instrument of divine justice, whereas Euripides typically does not. Aeschylus ' humans interact with the gods like Apollo and Athena regularly in his stories; for example, in Aeschylus’s “Eumenides,” character and character stand on trial with and against the gods. and stand on trial with and against them (e.g. Aeschylu 's, Eumenides). Most scholars regard Sophocles to be a very pious man-- and
How Euripides Portrays the Gods in Electra, Medea and Hecuba to be Inconsequential
General comments: “way” “different” – be less ambiguous; don’t use words like “terrible” when you mean “immoral,” you can say that things are corrupt in like 500 different ways—use them!!! degrades the character of…. Fraudulent actions…. Irreligious/godless etc
Vary your sentence structure, easiest way to do this is to use active voice
To vary your sentences: instead of “this focuses on ___more than Euripedes version” just say this focuses on ___ or this deemphasizes ____ in place of ____
The Athenian dramatists Aeschylus and Sophocles, although their interpretations of the Greek Orestia myth diverge, generally portray a moral universe in which gods directly influence human lives and ensure divine retribution for the injustices of menman. Euripides, by in contrast, normally does not. He is different because he deflates the role of the gods. In his plays there is no mention of divine intervention and justice is not generally as honorable. The revenge is n Euripides is cynical about the gods power or will to intervene, so they never appear as physical characters in his stories and characters mention them less often. His archetypes are all petty, cowardly or excessively violent. Euripides 's "Electra", "Medea" and "Hecuba" all focus on wicked revenge in an immoral world to question whether or not the gods can or will influence mortal affairs. In Aeschylus and Sophocles, , furthermore, the gods motivate the main characters to commit their revenge as a mortal instrument of divine justice, whereas Euripides typically does not. Aeschylus ' humans interact with the gods like Apollo and Athena regularly in his stories; for example, in Aeschylus’s “Eumenides,” character and character stand on trial with and against the gods. and stand on trial with and against them (e.g. Aeschylu 's, Eumenides). Most scholars regard Sophocles to be a very pious man-- and
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