The Medea: Women's Rights
Beginning of paper
Personal vengeance is not a flattering characteristic. When people
wish to change a situation they are in it is wise to use rational methods.
In Euripides' Medea, Medea and all the women of fifth century Athens wee
not treated well. By examining Medea's continuous use of evil and her plot
to kill ....
Middle of paper
.... is twice as hard for her as a foreigner without a
country. Then she gives her reason for getting the women to sympathize
with her. "If I can find the means or devise any scheme to pay my husband
back for what he has done to me - Him and his father in law and the girl
who married him." (260-263) It may have seemed in the beginning of the
monologue that Medea was out to join forces with the other women in
complaint to the way they are treated, but Medea was out for revenge. That
was underling ....
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