Medea study guide Themes used in Medea - Passion and Rage Medea is a woman of extreme behavior and extreme emotion. For her passionate love for Jason‚ she sacrificed all‚ committing unspeakable acts on his behalf. But his betrayal of her has transformed passion into rage. Her violent and intemperate heart‚ formerly devoted to Jason‚ now is set on his destruction. The Greeks were very interested in the extremes of emotion and the consequences of leaving emotion unchecked; they also tended to
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and morals‚ ancient Greek tragedies are no exception. Throughout Euripides?s play Medea‚ there is a common theme of manipulation. Medea manipulates everyone from the princess to her own children. She does this in order to reap revenge upon Jason‚ who was her husband but betrayed their marriage to marry the princess. Manipulation‚ as portrayed through Medea‚ can both aid and destroy a person’s morale. First‚ Medea manipulates the chorus so that they do not tell the people of Corinth about her plan
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In the play‚ Lysistrata‚ the women of Athens learn of Lysistrata’s plan to withhold sex in an effort to bring her husband back from war. The Athenian women decide to unite and implement Lysistrata’s plan in an effort to regain their own husbands and sons. In Aristophanes’ work he demonstrates his view of women as being cunning and resourceful beings yet at the same time comedic without even trying: The women make meeting to conspire plans‚ the women make themselves luscious to attract the males
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Reflective Statement #3 In “Medea” by Euripides‚ Medea end up committing filicide. At the end of the play she kills both of her children. She claims that she does it to prevent their humiliation and her being embarrassed by her peers. I’ve learned that in most cases the mother is the one who commits filicide. That makes sense to me that it is more likely for Medea to kill the kids than Jason. I learned that in most cases of filicide the child is under six years old. In the play Medea specifically mentions
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revenge takes in both Medea and The Thousand and One Nights is detrimental to a numerous of characters and results in the loss of many lives. The need to avenge someone for their wrong doings against you indicates that this was a common form in seeking justice during these ancient times‚ but through these two literary works it is apparent that gender plays a crucial role in how one goes about seeking revenge on their targeted subjects. In Medea the lead character Medea is a very clever and crafty
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Crystal Smart Medea is a tragedy because it demonstrates a strong tragic hero who has many commendable talents but is destroyed by a tragic flaw. Medea immediately arouses sympathy from the reader‚ in the beginning of the play. Her nurse introduces Jason‚ Medea’s husband‚ as a cheater who left Medea for a princess. The audience immediately takes Medea’s side. Everyone has loved someone‚ and knows the pain of betrayal. Medea is a scorned‚ unhappy‚ single mother. She has been abandoned in an unfamiliar
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Creon and Medea The “barbarian” princess and witch Medea met the Argonaut hero Jason while he was in Colchis on his quest for the Golden Fleece. She fell in love with Jason and used her magical knowledge to aid him in the seemingly impossible tasks set by her father King Aeetes as the price for obtaining the Golden Fleece. She fled Colchis with Jason back to his home at Iolcus in Thessaly‚ but they were soon forced to flee once more to Corinth‚ where they lived in relative peace for some
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’ Continuing in this vein of abstract dissertation‚ Medea laments the contemptible state of women: they are forced to become their husbands’ possessions in marriage (with no security‚ for they can be easily discarded in divorce)‚ they must endure the pains of childbirth‚ and they are kept from participating in any sort of public life (unlike men‚ who can engage in business‚ sport‚ and war). Once their home is taken from them‚ women like Medea are left with nothing. the lack of emotional restraint
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Recently I had the opportunity to attend to a Greek comedy called the lysistrata at Whatcom Community College. The show really connected to similar themes in our curicculum of IDS 161. In the opening scene of Lysistrata‚ it enacts the stereotypical and traditional characterization of women in Greece and also distances Lysistrata from this clichéd‚ housewife character. Lysistrata is not only angered because the women won’t prioritize war and the peace of their country‚ but she is ashamed that the
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TEACHING EURIPIDES’ MEDEA K.O. Chong-Gossard Euripides’ Medea remains one of the most often performed Greek tragedies today‚ and one of the favourite tragedies for secondary school students to read in Classics or English courses. Since there is a tremendous amount of scholarship already published on this play of plays‚ this article is intended to provide a quick reminder of the background to the play‚ a discussion of the character of the chorus and the character of Medea‚ and thus a variety
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