YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Revenge in Medea by Euripides
Essays 61 - 90
This paper consists of six pages and presents a hypothetical scenario of what might have happened after Medea departed and the Arg...
In five pages Canova's 'Perseus and the Head of Medea' and Degas' 'The Little 14 Year Old Dancer' are compared in terms of the wor...
wife of Agamemnon who has been off fighting the Trojan War for ten years. The goddess Artemis had left the fleet organized by Aga...
In five pages an apologia or argument on behalf of Medea is constructed based on the reasoning and logic of 'Encomium of Helen' by...
as revealed in the literary/mythological writings of ancient Greece. In "The Iliad," for example, when the mighty warrior Achille...
This paper examines the female characterizations in Medea and Electra in five pages. There are 2 sources cited in the bibliograph...
bound to engage. While mythological women were strong of mind and spirit, they were not allowed to express their inner most being...
she has aided and abetted a foul creature, and that the creature must be destroyed. Just as he married her for his own...
In her soliloquy, shortly before she kills the boys, she asks why should she do something that will hurt not only Jason, but herse...
revenge, but she is primarily using the only tools she has, those of her position as a woman and a mother. With Lysistrata we a...
men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...
running into pre-menopause here, why dont you visit your mother for a while." One of Medeas concerns is her own private humiliati...
In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...
must leave and also leave the children with him. In all honesty there is no reason why he should have dismissed her in such a mann...
that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...
in drama, as well as two of the most destructive. This paper compares and contrasts the plays that bear their names. Discussion H...
to be somewhat different from those of their male counterparts. While men typically choose to kill in a very straightforward manne...
watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
to Artemis... and not otherwise, we could sail away and sack Phrygia" (Euripides "Iphigenia at Aulis" 358). He writes to his wife...
was the wife of King Priam and the mother of Hector, who was killed by Achilles. Her other son; Polydorus was means to be safe as ...
what is bothering her, Phaedra seems to describe the Enlightenment philosophy in her observation: "We understand and recognize wha...
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...
homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...
in the following: "Oh be it ours to come to Theseus famous realm, a land of joy! Never, never let me see Eurotas swirling tide, ha...
wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...
skills. The walls of Athens are impregnable, but many people live outside these walls, so he gathers them in. They were not keen t...
In ten pages this research paper examines how the Greek perspective of tragedy is featured in Euripides' plays The Women of Troy a...
touch his heart. Various plot complications ensue and the political and social forces that are forcing her father to this awful d...
In ten pages this paper discusses how Euripides' plays depicted Clytemnestra in this consideration of the shift in women's portray...