The Justification Of Women In Euripides 'Medea'
Is Medea identified as a semi divine sorceress or is she just another woman in Greek society? In Euripides, Medea she states,” Let no one think that I am mean or weak nor peaceful, but of the other sort, a weight upon my enemies but to my friends most kind. It is to such people the heroic way of life belongs”(34.807-810). Medea sets a tone that she is somehow powerful in society, and she is not like the other women in society. In this speech Medea is giving she states,” a weight upon my enemies but to my friends most kind”(34.809). The point she tries to come across is that she is a good person as a hero would be to those of family and friends but, enemies should fear those of a good hero. Also as a woman in Greek society she should not
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A woman who leaves her family and a life she knows behind is a brave woman. She picked herself up and went to start a new life with the love of her life and that to any woman I would consider scary not knowing what if something happen later in that relationship they were building. She sticks by this man through thick and thin. Jason and Medea create a life together and have two sons and together they have a favorable life but, that all changes when Jason breaks Medea’s heart. Jason runs off with another woman to better benefit himself leaving his wife with two sons and a broken heart. That is when you start seeing a jealous woman let the jealous she has get the best of her and turns her into the coward she turns out to be. Medea kills her two sons over a man because he doesn’t love her anymore and decided to move on to someone new and we can all say she did this because she didn’t want her sons to carry on his name but was it because of that or because she wanted to get revenge on a guy for not loving her back. She was satisfied with her son's death because she was so content seeing Jason suffer that it overtook her remorse for death of her only
A woman who leaves her family and a life she knows behind is a brave woman. She picked herself up and went to start a new life with the love of her life and that to any woman I would consider scary not knowing what if something happen later in that relationship they were building. She sticks by this man through thick and thin. Jason and Medea create a life together and have two sons and together they have a favorable life but, that all changes when Jason breaks Medea’s heart. Jason runs off with another woman to better benefit himself leaving his wife with two sons and a broken heart. That is when you start seeing a jealous woman let the jealous she has get the best of her and turns her into the coward she turns out to be. Medea kills her two sons over a man because he doesn’t love her anymore and decided to move on to someone new and we can all say she did this because she didn’t want her sons to carry on his name but was it because of that or because she wanted to get revenge on a guy for not loving her back. She was satisfied with her son's death because she was so content seeing Jason suffer that it overtook her remorse for death of her only