Medea By Euripides

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A woman typically has a husband and children, they are central parts of being a women. A women needs to bear a child and needs to marry, Jason and her two sons represent customary family of women. Medea ends up terminating that future and ties, she killed her children, which in act show that she refuses to natural action of women. Medea is determine to get revenge on Jason, but Euripides makes Medea destroy all habitual characteristics of women. Medea is alone and has power, the need for a woman of this time period not to have a family is probalbly unheard. Medea undermines this need for a husband and infact she destroys the man she loves. Medea provides the femisnist view of how a women with power is, alone and without and ties.
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