Chorus In Medea

I will show understanding of the plot, character and themes and Shakesperes use of language and dramatic devices within the play.

It’s obvious that Shakespeare's play isn’t from our time period, especially the way they act. When we read stories we want to be able to the relate the character

Ancient expectations for women include always putting the responsibilities of being a mother above all else, as shown in Euripides’ Medea and Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, as well as Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis. Both Clytemnestra and Medea exhibit motherly love and tend to those responsibilities, but commit atrocious, unladylike acts, which jeopardize the sympathy felt for them by an audience. The respective playwrights of each story use their character’s motivations and how they align with their roles as mothers first and women second to ultimately characterize each in either a negative or positive light. The motherly motivation that Clytemnestra and Medea exhibit excuses their vengeful and deceitful actions, however Medea’s final action,

Just like in Lysistrata, I will use two chorus groups throughout the play, due to it playing such a large role, and demonstrating the dependency between the domestic and political lives of the Athenian people. This can be linked into how if nobody is watching the Olympics due to boycotts, then it loses all of its meaning and worth. One chorus would represent those in support of the LGBT community, the other being those against, also mimicking how protestors group together when trying to get a message across.

When the play was written and set (these may be different!) and a description of the cultural/social/political climate of these times and how is it reflected in your play

One of the most famous plays written by August Wilson, Fences, features the struggles of fifty-three year old African American blue-collar worker, Troy, throughout the period of several months. Wilson’s protagonist, Troy, tries to pursue the American Dream while tending to his family in the oppressed time of 1957 but fails to escape his harrowing past and forces his experiences and inferences upon the people he loves, which is enhanced by the use of specific diction that relates the setting, meaningful symbols, and ample, life-altering conflicts. Beginning with précis stage directions, common throughout the play, it is clear that the play’s setting is in a tensional time period. Clearly, “By 1957,” the hard-won victories of the European victories

important to note as the play was set at a time of monarchical struggle and the

At first she decides to spare her children since she didn’t want to see them die and couldn’t bear the thought of having to kill them. A quote from Medea is “Oh my heart, don’t don’t do it! Oh miserable heart. Let them be. Spare your children!”(Euripides 49 1057-1058). What the previous quote is saying in Medea would like to spare her children from death since they didn’t do anything wrong. What it is also saying is that her heart is miserable most likely meaning that she is sad and depressed. When she says “spare your children” she is telling herself don’t kill your children they don’t deserve to have to die just because of what your husband has done to her. What that all proves is that she really did not want to have to kill her kids. Once King Creon and the princess pass she finally decides that she must kill her two sons. A quote from Medea supporting why she had to kill her children is “For they must die In any case; and since they must, then I who gave birth will kill them” (Euripides 55 1237-1239). What the quote is saying is no matter what her kids will die. What it is also saying is that she is going to kill them. When Medea says “I who gave birth to them will kill them” she is saying that since she gave birth to her sons she should be able to see them die. What all of that proves is even though she might not want to kill them they will die no matter what and she should be able to see them die which is why she kills them herself. What both of those quotes prove is even though she kills them it was necessary since they would kill them to punish them for the crimes against the king and princess that they helped commit even though they didn’t know it would kill the

shall firstly do a summery of the play and give a basic image of what

night to establish the atmosphere. The immoral scenes of the play seem to take place at

look at both of the aspects of the play. In my piece of writing I

As the famous Greek playwright Euripides once said: “Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.” Such ideas are portrayed in one of him most famous plays, Medea. This play is a fascinating classic centered on the Greek goddess Medea. Despite its recent fame, during his time, Euripides was unpopular since he used what would be considered a ‘modern’ view where he would focus on women, slaves and persons from the lower classes. In the play, Medea commits filicide, which initially appears extremely horrendous, but as the audience is guided through the play, they develop sympathy towards Medea. In order to achieve this empathy and enhance the understanding of Medea’s pride and ideals, Euripides

The chorus is an essential feature of Greek classical drama. Instances of various types of dance, singing, and speech are some elements of a Greek chorus. “Composed of similarly costumed men, they performed on the orchestra located beneath the stage. The chorus stayed in the orchestra for the duration of the performance from which vantage point they observed and commented on the action of the characters.” Oedipus is a play written by Sophocles, a respected playwright, and it is “generally assumed that the main function of the Sophoclean chorus is a philosophical one; that it serves above all as the spokesman for a certain view of life.” The chorus can be dramatic in the following ways: “through the personality of the group forming the chorus and the appropriateness of their relationship to the action and the characters, through the iambic lines spoken by the coryphaeus, through physical participation in the action and through the choral songs.” The chorus is an important component of the Greek Tragedy Oedipus. Aside from its responsibility to effectively represent the people of Thebes, the chorus in Oedipus has a powerful influence over audience perceptions and emotions.

Write a paper that explains how history is portrayed in a particular play emphasizing what a certain historical event, personage, or situation enables the playwright to communicate. Discuss what effect the playwright's transformation of historical reality has on an audience.

In section 18 of the Poetics Aristotle criticizes Euripides for not allowing "the chorus to be one of the actors and to be a part of the whole and to share in the dramatic action, . . . as in Sophocles." Aristotle may be thinking of the embolima of Euripides' later plays (satirized also by Aristophanes), but he is certainly wrong about the Medea. Its choral odes are not only all intimately related to the action but are also essential for the meaning of the play, particularly because here, as elsewhere (e.g. Hecuba), Euripides forces us reevaluate his main protagonist in midstream and uses the chorus (in part) to indicate that change.