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Medea (Themes (Life as a foreigner (Medea is a woman meaning she is at the…

- - - - Why is a womans life so difficult
        
        They must have to pay to get married.
        
        Once they are married their husbands are their masters
        
        She will always be a foreigner in her husbands home meaning she will always be learning his customs and trying to figure out what comes next. Also be passive to what he wants even if it's not fair on her
        
        Men can go and cheat if they get bored but woman must always stay faithful.
        
        Childbirth is more painful
  - - - Barberic
      - Foreign
      - Uncivilised
    - - States that wild qualities must be tamed or controlled by the justice and use of law.
- - - - usually contains a tragic hero
        
        Of noble birth
        
        Fated by the gods or some supernatural force to doom and destruction or at least to great suffering/Hardship
        
        The hero has personality flaws that leads to error and suffering
        
        The tragic drama usually reveals the heroes true identity
        
        The hero's suffering is not gratuitous because through great suffering the hero can be enlightened. Pride is chastened
        
        Tragic Hero's can learn even after it's too late when they have made their error
      - Usually influenced by greek religion
        
        No deaths were allowed to be viewed on stage
        
        Dealt with moral rights and wrongs
        
        No violence were permitted on stage
      - All actors are male
      - Only 3 actors could be on stage at at the same time, thus each one played several parts
      - Visually, Greek drama was very stylised: masks were worn, doubling as indicators of identity
      - Plays were performed in competition during the dionysia a religious festival which took place every spring in Athens
      - A crane would of been used when a character is in flight
        
        Used at the end of medea
        
        Usually means a forced ending
  - - - Thucydides wrote: "The greatest glory for woman is to be least talked about among men, wether praise or blame."
        
        Euriphedes exploited this view in the play Medea
      - A man who teachers a woman to write should know that he is providing a poison to an asp. (unknown greek author)
      - There are two days on which a woman is most pleasing - when someone marries her and when he carries out her dead body (Hipponax)
      - Man in by nature superior to the female and so the man should rule and the woman should be ruled
      - Athenians saw women as beguiling (attractive but deceptive)
        
        Hence the quote "What's more we woman are helpless in doing good but surpassing any master craftsman in working evil" Medea
- - - - Daughter of abets of Colchis
      - Foreign Pricess
    - - Betrayed her father by assisting Jason in performing several tasks to win her fathers golden fleece
        
        Won't let go of her hatred
        
        Inevitably causes her tragedy
    - - Forced to Flee her homeland with Jason during which she chopped up her brother so her father would have to collect him.
    - - Helped Jason outwit his cousins to muder Pelias thereby forcing herself and Jason to flee Corinth
      - Manipulates Creon into letting her stay another day by playing on his feelings as a father
      - Manipulates her children into bringing poisoned gifts to Glauce
    - - Always resorts to violence and murder as a way to deal with her problems
    - - Kills her own children in order to get revenge on her husband, goes through with their murder and then is happy with her decisions
    - - Forced into loving Jason by the goddess of love
    - - Foreinger, not married.
    - - Her lack of moderation (avoidance of extremes)
      - Lack of virtue (Moral excellence)
    - - Medea means 'The cunning contriver(planner)'
    - - Manipulates man by appealing to their weaknesses
        
        Aegeus: Manipulates Aegeus into giving her safety via appealing to his need of wanting children by saying she can make him fertile with her powers.
        
        pg 70 line 1: You do not know what piece of luck you have found in me. I will put a stop to your childlessness and give you the power to father sons. Such charms I know.
        
        Aegeus agrees because his swearing by the gods is an excuse to keep her safe (big deal back in the day) and therefore benefits him by receiving only benefits and in turn has no consequence .
        
        Creon
        
        Manipulates Creon into giving her safety by appealing to his side as a parent.
        
        Pleads to Creon by praising him as a wise leader
        
        Makes herself seem insignificant
  - - - Doesn't even consider Medea will be upset
      - Doesn't think of the effects his leavings have on his children
      - Doesn't this about asking Glance to let his children stay
    - - Completed task to get the Fleece
      - Famous
    - - Money
        
        "I know that an impoverished friend is shunned, given a wide berth by everyone he knows" pg 65
      - Fame
        
        Values status over love (Wants to be a king)
        
        "What happier stroke of luck could I have met than this, to win the hand of a kings daughter, I, man with no country of his own?" pg 65
        
        'I should not wish either for gold in my house or the skill to sing a song lovelier than any Orpheus sang if these gifts were not accompanied by a famous name. pg 64
      - Continuation of his name.
        
        Has sons to continue his name.
    - - Believes his views are more important than Medea's
    - - Flaw
  - - - Sketches the backstory of the play
      - highlights important traditions at the time of medea
        
        Who seeks to please her husband in all she does. pg 1
        
        This is what keeps a marriage intact more than anything, when a husband can count on complete support from his wife. pg 1
      - Where love was once deepest a cancer spreads pg 1
      - Poor lady pg 1
    - - The murder of Medea's children
  - - - The most important thing to him is his family which he admits is his weakness
        
        "Am I to show you more love than my own family?" pg 59
    - - Allows medea to manipulate his emotions
      - Embraces Glauce in his grief
    - - A fair king, gives medea the opportunity to make provision for exile
    - - A good person in a bad situation, dies through no fault of his own.
- - - - Is this because Jason's oathbreaking has lost him all support from the god?
        
        Athens represented the epitome of civilised balance culture during the plays time period.
        
        Medea is taken to athens in the sun gods chariot
        
        This is because Euripides wants to show how unpredictable the gods are - They can show favour to a WOMAN who has murdered her children for revenge
        
        Euriphedes believes the gods may favour whom they want. Their decisions are not based on good and bad deeds. # #
    - - Men are held in high regard during the time of Medea. Euriphedes contradicts this by using medea as a powerful female character whom overpowers men in both wit and cunning while also using quotes to dis the male gender
        
        There is no Justice in the eyes of mortal men
        
        Why would there be justice with the gods?
    - - As shown through medeas desire for revenge
        
        Willing to sacrifice her own children
      - Euriphedes argues tragedy occurs when hatred triumphs love.
    - - Acceptance of the limits of human autonomy (free to act independently)
        
        Humans should accept limits of autonomy because people won't always make the best choices
        
        This is due to two different perspectives as seen in the antistrophe and strophe which represents the community's postive or negative perspective of the situation.
        
        Creon
        
        Allows Medea to stay one more night
        
        Aeugus
        
        Allows Medea refuge in his country
- - - - Gods behaved like humans, demonstrating human and moral qualities
        
        Morality is placed under the protection of the gods.
    - - Often badly behaved
      - Took offence
      - Sometimes helped
      - Fell in love with or mated with humans
    - - What Medea has done is endorsed by the gods