Clytaemnestra and Medea: Two women seeking justice Clytaemnestra and Medea are two women who are seeking justice for a wrong committed by their husbands. Clytaemnestra's husband, Agamemnon, did not wrong here directly but rather indirectly. Agamemnon sacrificed their daughter Iphigeneia, in ...
Betrayal and Revenge in the plays "Medea" and "The Libation Bearers" In 458 B.C. ... The other play I will be looking at is "Medea". Medea is the earliest tragedy of Euripides and in it we see a classic moral pattern. ... The next play I will deal with is Medea. ... This is when Medea wants to take revenge. ...
Jason in Euripides's Medea deserts his family for a new marriage which he hopes will further his station, but his old wife kills his new wife and his children, ending his hopes for a shining future. ... God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to people's houses," says the nurse in the beginning of Euripides's play Medea (119-130). She is foreshadowing the theme of the story and Euripides is voicing his message plainly through her. ... His first wife, Medea, is a powerful woman who has no place to go, so she becomes desperate. ... Even now I know that I am making a mistake...
The playwright Euripides wrote a controversial play to open the discussion about the treatment of women by men. This play, Medea, shows how poorly women are treated by their husbands and the things that a women could to exact revenge on her husband. 6.) ...
