YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Medea Apologia
Essays 61 - 75
dynamics of the power relationship between them is more complicated than a simple balance between active and passive: at the start...
In 8 pages this paper compares how fear and power are thematically portrayed in these 5th century Greek plays. There are 5 source...
In five pages this essay examines gender conflict within the contexts of these 5 dramas from ancient Greece. There are no other s...
In five pages Jason's characterization as represented by Euripides in his play is examined. There are no other sources listed....
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these plays by Euripides and Aristophanes in a consideration of the similarities a...
lament: "Of everything that is alive and has a mind, we women are the most wretched creatures. First of all, we have to buy a hus...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
more day and this is granted. Jason lamely agues that his abandonment of her and their children is for the best. After formulating...
the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...
she has given up. She is dejected and withdrawn, lying on her bed despondent and weeping. This depiction highlights Medeas femin...
by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...
until finally, the creation goddesses intervene and create a primitive alter-ego for him that would keep his own in check. Only w...
shown for "wives and women in general" (Vasillopulos 435). Christopher Vasillopulos observed in his literary criticism of Medea, ...
drama when Medea finds that she has been betrayed she cries to the heavens and says, "Come, Flame of the sky! Pierce through my he...
Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...