Social Class In Medea's Middle Class

The middle class was seen as a subunit of the Upper class as they were not as superior however were not slaves and had their freedom. This class was not allowed to marry anyone from the family of the Upper class which is ironic seeing that a man from the middle (close to the lower) class married a princess from the Upper class which had not happened in centuries.
Furthermore, the lower class were basically the throw away slaves. They consisted of past slaves that were given freedom miraculously by their owners. Slaves were the lowest people in the social standing. They were gathered by war or kidnapped by people or bought from other countries. The nurse was a slave in Medea.
This social status plays an important role in defining the characters in Medea. Medea’s social status went to the lower class after she had run away and this might have …show more content…
Due to this reason, we can conclude that Medea was harsh on her husband due to the fact that that she was seen as nothing in that society. Medea’s play shows that in Greek culture only rulers were the people that mattered, which means that the people in the rest of the community did not have a say in political decisions for their country. Marriages were arranged but Medea got married from true love even though it was against their rulings, she ran away with him and went against the tradition. Even though women made up the chorus where men were supposed to rule, they were still looked down upon, but Medea was a strong woman throughout the play who many looked up to due to her risky move of killing her father and brother for love. Every action that occurred to a person was believed to always connected to the Goddesses. The Goddesses also consisted of women and not only men which proved a point that women were not less or inferior to men rather they were at the same level but during that period not many believed