Euripides

SHALL ARGUE THAT Medea’s main conflict IS that she must try and reclaim her honor, after Jason disgraced her. Her conflict IS tragic because Medea tries to reclaim her honor by committing evil, and with full knowledge. She escapes unpunished because Euripides wanted a woman to win in his play, something uncommon in ancient Greek works. As the play begins, we immediately learn that Jason betrayed his wife, Medea, and abandoned her and their two children, so that he could marry the princess of…

come back to her she needed a valid reason for not remarrying. She deceives her suitors by telling them that she is making a funeral shroud for Leartes (Euripides 100-110). Being the honest and virtuous woman she is, allowing how the suitors see her as a way to keep them at arms length. The deception comes at night when she unties the shroud (Euripides 111). In Steven Lowenstam’s “The Shroud of Leartes and Penlope’s Guile”, he says that Penelope keeps this charade up for so long because “when…

Euripides’ Medea is a play of convict and relation. The storyline is based on past events including moments where Medea helped Jason steal a golden fleece from her father and even killing her brother. After this they both ran together to Corinth and had children. Jason then leaves Medea for a marriage to Creon’s daughter, Glauce. In Euripides play Medea, an in-depth view in is given into the life of a women scorned named Medea and her emotionally unstable reactions. The play begins amidst Jason…

Medea and Clytemnestra are two iconic transgressive female characters in classic literature. In Euripides’ Medea, the female powerhouse Medea is presented as a ruthlessly strong female whose actions can make the audience squirm. In Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Clytemnestra is painted as a bold female who seethes revenge and successfully gets it. Both women are undeniably strong, and given their situations, Clytemnestra is the more sympathetic character. As for the theme of feminism in the plays…

In the tragedy Hecuba, the Trojan queen becomes a slave to the Greeks after the fall of Troy. Her daughter, Polyxena becomes a sacrifice to the Greek warrior, Achilles. Exacerbating her grief, she discovers that her son, Polydorus, is murdered. Hecuba avenges her son’s death, redeeming herself as a mother. Similarly, in the comedy Lysistrata, Lysistrata cultivates her feminine power to organizes a sex strike to stop the civil war between Sparta and Athens. Hecuba’s vengeance and Lysistrata’s…

Ellhiot Banuelos Humanities 3301 10/22/14 The use of the Chorus The Chorus functions more as the symphony in the opera, they need to grab your attention to the problems that are presenting in the story. Specially during at some of the debate sequences of the story, the chorus becomes more kind of like a mediator, jury, or sometimes it can be interpreted as a witness. Most of the choruses are made up of city elders who express their opinions of the current events that they witnessed or are…

his analysis of people, he came to the conclusion that civilization is counter-productive to the ultimate goal of pleasure. We will attempt to determine how Euripides believes civilization relates to individuality through a Freudian analysis of The Bacchae. To do this, we must first analyze the roles of Pentheus and Dionysus given Euripides’ specific characterizations of them. Then we will perform an analysis upon Dionysus’s character evolution then move onto doing the same for Pentheus.…

Sophocles’ plays, Oedipus Rex and Antigone, and Euripides’ play, Medea, share the same three motifs: tragic flaw, betrayal, and self-righteousness; which create the conflicts in each of the three timeless Greek plays, and these motifs are rooted in way people behave. Oedipus’ tragic flaw is how he avidly seeks the truth, even to the extent that his wife would commit suicide and he blind himself. Compassion, which is usually predominant in women, causes Antigone’s downfall because she felt…

humble toward his life. Thus, he accepts his fate and grasps how he can escape from his fate. This goes back to where he comes from as the deceased in the world, which means the journey of soul. How is the solution of Sophocles complicated by Euripides ‘Medea and Hippolytus?’ [Compare and contrast the role of the gods in each play. On what do they base their actions, and what claim to justice and divine support have the main human…

Jules Dassin's film Phaedra is a modern retelling of Euripides' Hippolytus that focuses on wealthy ship owners and their families, yet the film still incorporates some of the tragic elements of Euripides' play. As with the play, core of the film revolves around a stepmother falling love in with her stepson, yet the film presents several of its main characters with different characterizations than their Euripidean counterparts. These changes result in feelings of passion and jealousy amongst the…