Revenge Against The Oppressors In Medea By Euripides
There’s always an intense excitement to be found in examining a story of the oppressed against the oppressors. Euripides’s Medea, for example, serves as a warning to the patriarchy regarding the unjust treatment of women at the time. He uses Medea’s experiences and interactions to exemplify the theme of social injustices governing the perception and status of women, and how this incorrect and bias view will lead to the eventual downfall of the patriarchy, the oppressors in power. Medea boldly takes revenge against Jason, to the extent of bringing substantial grief upon herself, in a society in which the social norm is to regard women as beneath men, as weak and gentle beings, and constantly subject them to double standards and clear bias in the arguments surrounding the domestic structure. She directly opposes this perception of society and, in the end, proves that women are fearsome beings as capable if not more so than men.
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She betrays her homeland, gives up her status as a princess, kills her own brother, and helps murder Pelias and yet he eventually divorces her in order to get more prestige and provide trivial excuses such as it isn’t for my own interests, you’re better off here than your barbaric homeland, and credits his success, her sacrifices, to Aphrodite. His disrespect is a reflection of how the patriarchy thought of women. Creon, another representative of the patriarchy, was wise enough to exile Medea for her reproaches and in fear of the sorceress’s revenge, but she cunningly used the perception of women to make the king pity and underestimate her. This allowed her enough time to enact her revenge, symbolizing the downfall of the patriarchy as a result of their perception of
She betrays her homeland, gives up her status as a princess, kills her own brother, and helps murder Pelias and yet he eventually divorces her in order to get more prestige and provide trivial excuses such as it isn’t for my own interests, you’re better off here than your barbaric homeland, and credits his success, her sacrifices, to Aphrodite. His disrespect is a reflection of how the patriarchy thought of women. Creon, another representative of the patriarchy, was wise enough to exile Medea for her reproaches and in fear of the sorceress’s revenge, but she cunningly used the perception of women to make the king pity and underestimate her. This allowed her enough time to enact her revenge, symbolizing the downfall of the patriarchy as a result of their perception of