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    Medea Rhetorical Analysis

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    then admits that Medea is "clever‚ skilled in many evil arts." line 273‚ we are unable to relate to these arts‚ we do not poses the same abilities that Medea had and as a result‚ we are less sympathetic to her from the start‚ she is set apart from us. "I hear reports that you are threatening violence on me and on the bridegroom and his bride" line 275‚ this is the first time that we are told that Medea intends to hurt more than just Jason with her revenge‚ we start to see that Medea may not be all

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    Wild Revenge in Medea

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    who have been wronged or an excuse to pursue revenge. Through Medea‚ Medea’s actions have been judged and criticised whether her murders are an act of justice that she deserves or simply the idea of inflicting pain on those she loathes. Revenge is the predominant motivator for the psychological and corporeal action of the play. In the play‚ Medea is self absorbed into her misery‚ her determination of inflicting pain and suffering to Jason consumes her entire rationality and revenge is her only focus

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    share similar characteristics. Medea from Euripides’s play Medea and Clytemnestra from Aeschylus’s play Agamemnon display and share tragic traits. They are both vengeful wives who share similarities in the cause of their vengeance but have some differences in their chosen means of revenge; as a result of successfully exacting their revenge both Clytemnestra and Medea cause their own downfall. Both Medea and Clytemnestra seek to hurt their husbands for betraying them. Medea uses the best source of revenge

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    Chorus Role in Medea

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    response to Medea and her actions in both a positive and negative manner. The Chorus‚ a body of approximately fifteen Corinthian women who associate the audience with the actors‚ is able to persuade and govern us indirectly through sympathy for what has been done to Medea‚ a princess of Colchis and the victim of her husband’s betrayal of love for another woman. The Chorus also lead us to through sympathy for Medea to accept her decision of taking revenge on princess Glauce and Jason. On the other

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    Medea’ a tragic Greek play written by Euripides focuses on the importance of the patriarchal society within Greece during this period and the impacts of male power on those regarded of lower respect such as women. Medea at first glance appears to be the sole villain in the play however it is evident that Jason is the villain supported by a strong patriarchal society‚ and with Medea merely falling victim to their actions. Male dominance throughout the play is what Euripides highlights as the true

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    Medea Persuasive Essay

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    Although Euripides play Medea creates feelings of fear in the audience‚ it also creates feeling of pity in the audience as well. Medea is firstly portrayed as a pitiful woman whose problem is much bigger than her own life. Facing the fact that she will be exiled very soon and the fact that she has nowhere to go‚ combined with her abhorrence towards her enemies‚ she starts to devise a plan that not only will set her free from her problems but also will cost a fortune to her enemies. But the audience

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    Medea Feminist Analysis

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    To help her with her role as Medea‚ Maia makes frequent visits to Brenda Palmer‚ a woman who has been labeled “the Medea of Glyfada” for killing her three children in response to her husband’s adulterous actions‚ just as Medea did in the play. Despite being set in different time periods and having a slightly different plot‚ Jules Dassin’s Dream of Passion and Euripides’ Medea are very similar. Euripides’ Medea and Dassin’s Dream of Passion are similar in that they both cast the woman as a complex

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    Medea Revenge is the action of inflicting hurt or harm on someone for a wrong suffered at their hands. It is seen as a ‘wild justice’‚ and as revenge is entertaining (also allowing us to consider our own morals and beliefs) it is an enduring interest in literature. The desire for revenge is an evolved outgrowth of our human sense of unsatisfied reciprocity. Revenge has been evident in the early years of human life. For many tribal cultures‚ is one member of the family was killed or injured‚ it

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    Billy's Revenge In Medea

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    doer; she was now seeking harsh revenge for his "crime" against her. In the Greek drama Medea‚ the main character‚ after whom the play is named‚ seeks what she sees as justice against those who have wronged her. In the play Medea‚ the reader’s loyalty is split between Medea and

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    only in certain circumstances like self defense. However‚ it is not in Medea’s case. Because Medea was killing going around killing everybody all to be with Jason. Medea killed her own father and brother just to be with a guy named Jason so that he could have power. Later on in life Jason ended up leaving Medea to go and marry another woman that he had begun to have feelings for. When Jason left‚ then Medea became very hateful and crazy. She even became the most hated woman in the town. She became

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