Medea Essays

Toni Morrison’s novels are, to a great extent, susceptible to an archetypal interpretation. Thus, Beloved has been considered, by the critical opinion, as having its roots in the myth of Medea which forms the subject of Euripides’ ancient tragedy. The story told by Morrison’s novel is the constructed mostly on what Kathleen Marks termed as […]

Medea and her family, including Jason are all outsiders, as the setting of this story is in Corinth, where Medea left her hometown for. They are all there as foreigners, hence they are all considered outsiders in the country. Medea is an outsider in 4 ways. Firstly, she is a foreigner like her family members. […]

Euripides’ Medea and Seneca’s Medea are the two surviving ancient tragedies of Medea. Both versions are drastically different and contrast in several aspects. Euripides portrays Medea as more human. She is the epitome of the oppressed housewife and only after her suffering is she capable of the crimes she committed. Seneca’s Medea is even more […]

Medea is a unique character who defies typical Greek societal norms and values of the time that the play was written. Despite being a woman, she possesses traits and characteristics typically associated with Greek heroes, including strength, power, intelligence, cunning, volatility, and independence. It’s possible that a typical Greek audience of the time (predominantly male) […]

No matter which one is chosen, state or family, it is apparent that misplaced loyalty can bring us to some sort f tragedy or even a fatality. In the beginning of the play Titus Androgenic , we are introduced to Titus, a brave warrior of Rome. It is so clear that he would do anything […]

From time immemorial, women have been depicted as the weaker sex. This stance is evident from the historical treatment of women and the laws that governed the people sometimes could show male bias. With passage of time we have witnessed women being treated with relative amount of respect. This is because of the modern research […]

For centuries, people have read Euripides play “Medea” and pondered the question, “Does Euripides want to portray Medea as a witch or as a woman? ” When the play was first written, powerful women were perceived to be dangerous or commonly thought of as witches. No women were aloud to explore knowledge or to live […]

The notion of the ideal man presented in the play Medea, by Euripides, is an exceptionally important one in the context of 5th Century Athens, a culture based very much upon the importance of the man both in his household and the general society. In Greece during the time of the play, the ideal man […]

The divine power in the three plays undergoes noticeable changes. In Agamemnon, characters like the chorus and Clytemnestra demonstrate Zeus’ divine power through actions such as singing and praying. This illustrates that Zeus’ desire for justice is omnipresent and embraced by all characters. In other words, the divine intervention in this play greatly influences the […]

Throughout the chapters we have read, it seems that Medea has ever-changing plans in mind. She hasn’t seemed to stick to one plan yet, and is probably hesitant or maybe unwilling to carry it off. The questions arises as to whether or not these plans are empty threats, or whether she really intends to put […]

Euripides has a reputation for not like women, so we would expect there to be a great deal of scorn and an unsympathetic depiction of Medea coming from Euripidies. I have four parts to the way that my sympathies turn in Medea. Firstly I am sympathetic, then when we find Medea very scheming and plotting […]

American writer, Frank Herbert once said: “Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion” (Herbert, 2009). This phrase, in my opinion, perfectly reflects the connotation of Justice that can be tracked […]

Introduction Iliad refers to the great epic poems written by ancient Greek writer known as Homer. The setting of this poem is during the Trojan War, when the city of troy was sieged by the combination of Greek states. Homer was competent to come up with two vigilant poems; the odyssey and the Iliad. The […]