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Cody Chalmers Analysis and Criticism Don Hooper 2/13/12 A Midsummer Night’s Dream vs. Medea “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Medea” are both good plays‚ but “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” appeals to a wider audience. There is a reason that it is the most produced play in the world. It appeals to a wide audience because of its Comedic moments and due to the fact that there are many ways to produce Shakespeare so no to performances are the same. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” has lots of options
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influenced by many social factors including: laws‚ religion‚ peer opinions‚ etc. Euripides’ Medea is a play of its time as it is influenced by the social influences of its time. Medea‚ sacrifices her family and country for Jason‚ but the situation is accentuated when Jason abandons her and her children to obtain a higher social status. In this period of time‚ oaths were very valued. These oaths were made under the gods’ name and respected. In this context‚ the roles of women were marginalised
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sorceress who falls in love with Jason and helps him steal the Golden Fleece from her father and escape. Medea and Jason safely reach Greece are married and have two children‚ but Jason leaves Medea to marry a new bride and become king. Medea is the protagonist of Euripides’s play Medea she is comparable to Odysseus from Homer’s epic The Odyssey in that they both are faced with many problems‚ but the way in which they handle the situations sets the two apart. When Jason left Medea for his new bride
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reputation‚ and that Medea has true love for her husband‚ Jason. Both women‚ Medea and Hedda‚ were raised in a very high class society‚ but then became lower class after marriage. Medea’s father ruled Colchris‚ a land known for its barbaric ways. Hedda Gabler’s father was a general. Medea and Hedda left their roots to go off on their own‚ neither one for the right reasons. Medea left Colchris to be with Jason‚ whose life she saved. For Jason Medea killed her brother and left her father to never speak
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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 hand the Corinthian women influence us and our responses towards Medea negatively by pleading to her when she decides to kill the children later in the story. A way the Chorus influences our response to have pity and to give sympathy
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The novel Medea by Euripides is a ancient Greek tragedy based on the myth of Jason and Medea. The hole story is centered on Medea’s actions and even more so on the theme of betrayal. When Jason leaves Princess Medea for another Princess named Corinth‚ Medea becomes vengeful. She enacts her revenge by killing Jason’s mistress and‚ her own children. After all this she leaves to go to Athens Greece. The main focus is on women killing their own children; a term for killing your own child is called maternal
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own children to get revenge on Jason for betraying her for Glauce. Because of the Greek Society and Jason’s betrayal‚ Medea feels she needs revenge to relieve the pain that Jason caused. As it is stated in the book‚ the cause of Medea’s grief is Jason. Therefore Medea’s revenge was acceptable because of the hardships that Jason left Medea after he got all the help from her. To begin with‚ the reader can see how lonely she is and what she has done to be with Jason when the Nurse says‚ “She is learning
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In it‚ he emphasized the gods‚ which he believed the people of Greece were ignoring. He also made sure to highlight the issues with the treatment of women. To do this‚ he took a commonly despised character‚ Medea‚ and warped the initial story of Jason and the Golden Fleece to show it from a female perspective. By making Medea the focus of the story‚ Euripides was able to explore the problems Greek women of the time faced. Though classic Greek dramas generally lack well-rounded female characters
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Jealousy Kills A common belief in ancient Greece was misogyny which is the fear of women (Pomeroy 90). Misogyny brought about male superiority which will explain the actions of Jason‚ a main character in the story Medea by Euripides. Men in ancient Greece created a society where it was nearly impossible for women to live on their own because they could not get a job to support themselves. Men in ancient times were terrified of the idea of‚ “…a good wife like Deronia can murder her husband. These
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