Use Of Eloquent Dictation Is Far More Powerful Than Actions

The common event made me think differently of Medea. This was through having different actors/actresses reading the same part of the play where Medea speaks to Jason. By having different actors/actresses reading the same scene from Medea, it allowed me to see what the purpose of the play was as well as the personal lesson it taught me. The purpose of this play was to see the emotions of Medea and to validate her reason for murdering her two kids. The personal lesson it taught me was to stick up for yourself no matter how bad your situation/circumstance is.  Also, this presentation allowed me to also appreciate the character Medea. Initially, I thought Medea was evil, strange, and cold-hearted,but after the common event, I learned that Medea

Seneca’s portrayal of Medea is exceptionally different. Medea’s story up to the present time is told from her own mouth, not that of the Nurse. The play opens with Medea praying to the gods to “give [her] control” (45) so that she may carry out her vengeance. Her rage and fury are present from the start. She tells herself to “bare your rage for fighting, and prepare yourself to kill, work to a frenzy” (46). She admits that she hopes “men will…pair [her] divorce with [her] wedding in well-matched rivalry” (46). Seneca’s Medea is more in control than Euripides’ Medea. Euripides’ Medea is very

Medea’s strength is portrayed as her madness as she takes control and decides the fate of her enemies. She is a strong character and Euripides allows Medea to have a voice by allowing the audience to witness her break from the norm of what a woman of her time is expected to do. After giving up her family and former life to be with her husband, Jason, he decides to marry a younger princess while still married to Medea. Medea realizes that women are left to face the most miserable situations and says, “We women are the most unfortunate creatures” (229). Jason feels that Medea is to be grateful for what he is doing by marrying into royalty as it will afford all of them a better life. The representation of Medea by Euripides is powerful, manipulative, and extremely smart, yet because she is a woman she has limited social power.

The duty of women portrayed in Greek society is a major subject in Euripides Medea. In old Greek society, ladies are delicate and compliant as per men, and their social position is viewed as exceptionally mediocre. Feminism is the hypothesis of men being viewed different in contrast to women and the male predominance over ladies in the public eye. Women's lives are spoken to by the parts they either pick or have forced on them. This is obvious in the play Medea by Euripides through the characters of Medea and the medical attendant. During the day and age which Medea is set ladies have exceptionally restricted social power and no political power by any stretch of the imagination, despite the fact that a ladies' maternal and residential power was regarded in the protection of the home, "Our lives rely upon how his lordship feels." The constrained power these ladies were given is diverse to present day society yet parts are as yet forced on ladies to acclimate and be a devoted spouse. Ladies have dependably been dis engaged because of their sex in present day and antiquated circumstances alike. In Corinth they are required to run the family unit and fit in with social desires of an obedient spouse. Medea, being an eternal and relative from the divine beings has a specific power in insight and guileful keenness. Being an outsider, Medea's wayward nonsensical conduct was normal in this play as she was not conceived in Greece and was viewed as an exotic foreigner. She goes over to the group of onlookers as an intense female character regarding viciousness. Some of Medea's responses and decisions have all the earmarks of being made a huge deal about as creators for the most part influence characters to appear to be overwhelming; this makes a superior comprehension of the content and the issues which are produced through the characters. Medea's ill-conceived marriage and the double-crossing of Jason drive Medea to outrageous vengeance. Medea acts with her immortal self and confer coldhearted demonstrations of murder instead of legitimize the results of her actions. Medea see's this choice as her lone resort as she has been exiled and has no place to go, "stripped of her place." To make sensitivity for Medea, Euripides

Internal conflicts within Medea shed light on her true character and her difficulties to make decisions. Throughout the play, there are many cases of Medea contemplating her

Medea questions the firmly held belief in Greek society that women are weak and passive. Wanting revenge on Jason for his betrayal of her, Medea must take control of the situation, a stereotypical masculine quality. Though she cannot become a man or take power like a man, she perceives her

The play Medea uses the setting to help the audience better understand the meaning of the text. What is said depends greatly on who is around and where the character(s) are. For example, when Medea is by herself or with the chorus, she is speaking freely of her evil plans, however, when she was in the presences of Creon or Jason, she lied to their faces. The audience knows what her true thoughts and feelings are due to the setting. They are not tricked into thinking she has changed her mind but instead, they know when she is lying based on who she is around. After Medea devised a plan, she sent for Jason and pleades to him, “Jason, I ask you to forgive me for the things I said before. You’re used to putting up with my temper, since so many acts of love have passed between us…” (Medea, 870). This quote is a perfect example of how the setting changes the meaning of the words. This helps portray the overall them of identity. Medea is now full of rage and anger due to her husband leaving her for another woman. She has lost her sense of identity which was found in her husband. She is a refugee in Corinth and has no friends or family. She feels completely alone with nowhere else to turn but to anger and rage.

Although Medea, like many women, gives up her family, home, and body for her marriage. Medea feels that “of all things we women are the most unfortunate creatures,” (8) and further discusses the difficulties and unjust situations women face such as “for there is not easy escape for a woman, nor can she say no to her marriage” (8) and how men do not use the same rules. For example, Medea feels that “what applies to me does not apply to you” (9). She seems envious of the freedom men possess.

In the beginning of the of the play Medea talks

Medea is the tragic story of a woman desperate for revenge upon her husband, after he betrayed her for another woman’s bed. It was written by Euripides, a Greek playwright, in 431 B.C. Throughout the play each character shows us their inconsistent and contradicting personalities, in particular, Jason and Medea. The play opens with the Nurse expressing her anxiety about Jason betraying and leaving Medea for another, wealthier, woman. Our initial reaction is to feel empathetic towards Medea, who has been abandoned so conveniently. But towards the end of the play, when Medea takes revenge on

Weak and submissive are not something she's going to settle for. Medea talking about herself... ' You have the skill. What is more, you were born a woman, And women, thought most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.'

Charlotte Bronte once said, “Women are supposed to be very calm generally, but women feel just as men feel. They need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do. They suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow minded in their more privileged fellow creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags”. In the play Medea, Euripides diverged from the traditional role of Greek women through Medea’s characteristics and response to her plight. In delineating the role of women, Medea was unlike any other Greek character. Medea was portrayed

The Chorus influences our 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 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.

In the Medea, the dichotomy of intelligence versus ignorance is shown when the protagonist's cunning is severely underestimated by all those around her. Jason believes that she is foolish for carrying on as she does; he says, “[y]ou women have come to such a point to think, if things go right in bed, you have everything,” (569-570) but he misses that she is angry about her station in life and intends to change it. As Shirley A Barlow explains in “Stereotype and Reversal in the Medea,” The protagonist is “aware of more than the fact that she suffers and injustice. She is aware that the root cause is beyond herself.” (Barlow 160). Creon seems to glimpse what she is capable of when he tells her that he fears her (282), but he still allows her to stay in Corinth for one more day, (355-6) proving that he is ignorant after all. Medea is far more clever than the men around her and she knows how to manipulate them. When she appeals to Creon (340) and later

When I originally read Medea, I instantly saw a strong, influential woman who had something to hide. Medea’s traumatic experience of Jason leaving her for another woman, forced her to mask her true feelings and assume a new personality. At the start of the novel, readers see an emotional side of Medea, which is replaced by the revenge she seeks against Jason. Hence concealing her true emotions to portray fierce and cunning instead of small moreover weak. Given her vulnerable side, it seemed logical that Medea would have documented her private thoughts throughout her hardship, such as maintaining a journal before her children left with King Creon.