The Role Of Women In Medea
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Medea is the tragic tale of a woman scorned. It was written in
431 B.C. by the Greek playwright, Euripides. Eruipides was the
first Greek poet to suffer the fate of so many of the great
modern writers: rejected by most of his contemporaries (he
rarely won first prize and was the favorite target ....
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.... and self pity. Medea is both woman and
foreigner; that is to say, in terms of the audience’s prejudice
and practice she is a representative of the two free born groups
in Athenian society that had almost no rights at all (“Norton
Anthology” 739). Euripides could not have chosen a more
downtrodden role for Medea. Here is this woman who has stood by
her man through thick and thin. She has turned her back on her
family and killed her own brother while helping ....
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