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How Does Euripides Use The Feminine In Medea Insane

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During the play, Medea by Euripides the woman Medea is no doubt unstable. Insane characters usually care about something, in this case, it is not her children. During the beginning of the play, she pleads with Ceron about their banishment trying to appeal to his humanity by addressing the point that one more day and she can “find safe asylum for my children (pg. 147 line 351)”. As she plans it touches Ceron, however, she uses that day to plan her revenge on her ex-husband. Medea shows that there are certain people that are just too blinded by revenge, that even the woman who birthed them turns to use them as a pawn. With that day, she is given she collects the gold she has and sends it as a gift with her children telling them that it is essential

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