Medea

patriarchal continuance, Medea struggles to see worth in them, keeping them alive would force her to continue her role as a mother, hence maintaining the clichéd Grecian wife which she previously upheld. Jason also seeks to narrow the debate about Medea’s lamenting, focussing on her personal grievances and sexual jealousy, in attempt to try and characterize Medea [presumably to the Grecian audience] as a nuisance and nothing more than a part of the inferior gender. Whereas Medea has appealed to the women

Dido from Virgil and Medea from Euripides’s play Medea were very smart, powerful and influential women in the ancient Rome and Greece. These two female characters were seen as intelligent and assertive by society but they were also seen as very vulnerable and very emotional women. Both women fall deeply in love with a man and they are willing to do anything they can possibly do for their loved one. These two women were driven by love and emotions but they also

a society that placed women in a subservient position, attempted to contain his genuine feminism yet historians have always looked towards Euripides for the origins of early feministic views. One of his works that expressed his voice was his play Medea. Euripides’s anachronistic ideas of feminism was seen by the audience as an attempt to be comical yet actually resounded the theme of a woman overcoming the constraints of a masculine society that condemns women into a subservient

intend to get the desired outcome is by withholding any sexual activity from the husbands until the war is ended. Medea is another powerful play in which a smart and cunning woman, Medea, plans her revenge on her husband. The reason she is planning to get revenge is because her husband had been unfaithful and has intentions of marrying another woman, Creon’s daughter, which leads Medea to be distraught and outraged by this betrayal. Lysisitrata gives women more agency to act because throughout the

Medea and Antigone are two stories of women who are fighting back for what they want, and what they believe is right. Both stories take place in ancient Greece, around the time of its rise to power. Medea and Antigone are both very strong, independent and sometimes very manipulating characters. Even though they are very much similar, they have different moral settings that actually control what they do. Medea is often extremely demanding when it comes to getting what she wants. Antigone will

The two stories of Antigone by Sophocles and Medea by Euripides detail the undoing of two Greek women. Each tale is shrouded by death, heartache and despair. While both women's downfall is caused by man, how they reached that end couldn't be more different. One stays loyal to her family even if it means her own death as the other uses her family to exact her revenge. Medea's and Antigone's story is entangled with the issues of love, but how they react to their situation is both drastic and unique

Persuasiveness of Medea In Euripides’ play Medea, the reader follows the final day of Medea’s life in Corinth. The wife of Jason of the Argonauts and the mother of his children, Medea’s life has been paved in blood and death. Some years prior to the events of the play, Medea, infatuated with Jason, “…betrayed [her] father and [her] home, and came with [Jason] to Pelias’ land of Iolcus. And then, showing more willingness to help than wisdom, [Medea] killed him, Pelias, with a most dreadful death…” (Medea, 16)

Medea: Witch or Humane? What kind of woman would go to an extreme to kill not only her king and his daughter, but also her most precious gift, children, all due to love? Euripides Greek drama Medea, which dates back to 431 B.C.E conveys this image of a woman named Medea, who was not only a powerful foreigner who did the impossible to follow the man she loved through ocean waters, but also, viewed as a witch who threatened lives and who was feared. Does Medea really deserve or convey an aura of

into ancient Greek drama through characters like Medea, whose motives are confused, complex, and ultimately driven by passion” (Galens and Spampinato para. 1). This one-sided battle of wills is portrayed throughout the literary tragedies of history, and it is essential to the structure of both Shakespearean and Greek tragedy: namely, those of Macbeth and Medea. In the nature of literary tragedy, tragic flaw and downfall go hand in hand. Macbeth and Medea, although their circumstances differ in time and

The Roles of Dido and Medea; A Comparison of Cultures Women in the ancient world did not have the rights or status as we do today. They were looked upon as possessions or property. For a woman to be strong or be allowed to hold a position of power was something that was unheard of. Medea and Dido were two very strong and powerful women, however each lived in slightly different cultures. Their choices in how they chose to wield their power gives us a small insight on the differences in