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    Medea Prosecution

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    From what we can see‚ Medea clearly killed not only Creusa and Creon‚ but her own children. Good judge‚ I implore that you pay close attention to the horrible deeds that this woman has wrought on these innocent people. We can see that she had planned these murders out‚ and‚ despite knowing the evil she would soon unleash‚ continued with them with only the goal of hurting Jason. Medea hated Jason‚ and hate was also one of the overpowering motives of the murders. We know Medea killed them‚ and we know

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    Medea Analysis

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    Medea Response Paper Alex Barba 3/26/13 The character Medea can easily be seen as the villain of her own play having brutally murdered her own children as well as King Creon and his daughter. It is difficult to understand why someone would go to such lengths of revenge for someone divorcing them but Medea is a complex character whose unyielding motivation is what drives the play. It is also tempting to dismiss her actions as crazy‚ however using the word crazy implies that there are no

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    Plato & Medea

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    the tragedy Medea‚ written by Euripides‚ Medea plays the major role in this story‚ unlike most Greek stories with women playing only minor roles‚ but she also demonstrates many behavioral and psychological patterns unlike any other Greek women. In Euripides’ Medea the main character‚ Medea‚ Displays many traits that breakdown traditional Athenian misogyny by displaying her as proactive in taking her revenge‚ having cruel and savage passions‚ and being a very manipulative women. Medea shows herself

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    Themes of Medea

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    2011 Medea Video Project Analysis The “Medean” Hillbillies Euripides’ Medea is classified an ancient Greek tragedy. However‚ this story is much more than a tragedy. The story of Medea is one that definitely grabs the reader’s attention through both its text and its themes. The themes that the story of Medea presents are very practical and still continue to exist in humanity today. The three largest and most obvious themes that a reader is most likely to find and relate to while reading Medea are

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    Filicide in Medea

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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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    On Revenge and Medea

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    of characters such as Medea‚ they neglect the human thrive for meaningless vengeance in characters such as Shakespeare’s Iago. <br> <br>Euripides’s Medea uses the theme of the search for revenge in order to instigate the downfalls and deaths of many characters. This theme is expressed through the character of Medea‚ who fits directly into the mold laid out in the guidelines of "Of Revenge". Medea’s search for revenge commences after her husband‚ the famous Greek hero Jason‚ leaves her for the power

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    On Teaching Medea

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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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    Pain In Medea

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    Medea‚ a mother‚ a wife‚ an ex princess‚ that gave up everything for the one she loved. The one that took everything from the one she loved due to the pain he caused her. Medea is one that was like no other in Corinth she feels no remorse. Media is not a Greek and in order to be with Jason‚ the one she loves‚ she had to give up her title of a princess. Jason then turns on her to marry the princess of Corinth in order to give their two kids a name and a place in Corinth‚ instead of being an outsider

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    Alienation in the Medea

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    events of The Medea unravel in‚ is a society that regards the atypical as threatening and gives hardly any rights to women and foreigners – a common characteristic of Athenian societies during the play’s publication. Since Medea is part of the two groups in Athenian society that are treated discriminatorily and her cleverness is seen as menacing‚ the rulers of Corinth want to exile her almost immediately upon Jason’s betrothal to the princess of Corinth. Because of her alienation‚ Medea feels like she

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    Miscommunication In Medea

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    start of Pasolini’s Medea‚ we see a very young Jason‚ five to be precise‚ being enlightened by Chiron‚ the Centaur about the sacrifice of the golden fleeced ram to Zeus‚ by Aetes‚ the king of Aea‚ for welcoming Phrixus. The Centaur then tells Jason about him being the descendant of Aeolus. In the same frame‚ the Centaur also tells young Jason about how his uncle‚ Pelias‚ imprisoned his father and took over the kingdom of Iolchus‚ which is rightfully his. In the next frame‚ as Jason turns thirteen‚ we

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