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While all the women of Troy grieve, each finds their own way. Discuss…
While all the women of Troy grieve, each finds their own way. Discuss
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Each finds their own way
Hecuba - a very physical, emotional outburst of sorrow. She begins the play by lying on the ground. She cries so loud that the women come running to her. This is important as it shows her downfall from the queen of Troy to a slave. She draws a parallel from her body to troy itself several times too. She is considered to 'literally' turn into a feral dog at the end of the play when she is boarding the ships.
Cassandra - knows her marriage will kill Agamemnon and feels a duty to go along with it. Because nobody else believes her, they see it as a tragedy, though Cassandra sees a bleak but silver lining. It motivates her to fulfil her prophecy
Andromache - joins Hecuba to sing about the bleak future containing "sorrows only" and "sad destiny".
she, in conversation with Hecuba, draws the conclusion that the gods have left them.
She believes that death is a better alternative to enslavement, and says that Polyxena is lucky because death is better "than to live a life of pain".
Hecuba has hope for the future, while Andromache argues the dead suffer less.
Contention (agree)
While every trojan woman would be considered to experience some form of grief, each woman will experience grief differently.
Topic sentences
Euripides creates characters with a loud, intense physical display of grief to highlight the tragedy felt by those characters, which intends to resonate with an Athenian audience.
Hecuba expressing her downfall, comparing her body to troy
Andromache mourning over the loss of her husband and downfall of troy, looking forward to a "sad destiny"
Euripides continues his emphasis on grief, by examining the idea that death is a better alternative than to "live a life of pain." (further emphasises the horrors of war)
Hecuba makes a comment that "the dead have forgotten all sorrows", meaning the dead are luckier than the living. They are left with no troubles or memory, while the women shed "tears on tears"
Andromache sees Polyxenas death as lucky because she cannon remember unhappiness or indignity. Shea argues that the dead are better off. She argues with Helen who disagrees, and sees hope itself a "secret deception"
Although Euripides predominately uses melancholy as the common response to grief, he also uses ideas of revenge and motivation.
Cassandra is motivated by revenge of the death of her siblings and father, and intends to "happily" marry Agamemnon to kill him. Because everyone thinks she's crazy, nobody believes her.
Cassandra contrasts Hecuba grief by arguing that although the Greeks were technically the winners of the war, that they suffered the most, and uses this speech to invoke some hope in the women of troy.