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The Role of Women in Medea
Title: The Role of Women in Medea
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1064 | Pages: 4.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Role of Women in Medea
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 for the
scurrilous humor of the comic poets), he was universally admired
and revered by the Greeks of the centuries that …showed first 75 words of 1064 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1064 total…children in the end is brilliant. The reason for
the female support is evident. If the Nurse or Chorus had been a
male servant or a mixed crowd in society the plot of the play
would have been lost. Medea is a woman suffering from a broken
heart, and it seems only fair that she be given sympathy and
judgment from peers who can relate. Hell hath no fury like that
of a woman scorned!
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