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positions and roles in society in tragedy - Coggle Diagram
positions and roles in society in tragedy
Bacchae
Women
Explores the daners of women abandoning their roles
and possibly explores the tensions of a patiarchal system
All of the women of thebes have become Bacchants, and have abandoned their roles
this is the main concern of pentheus, and the reason he is so against bacchic worship
Dionysus describes them as sittin on 'bare rock under the reen pine trees'
the messanger reports that they are suckling animals
Slaves
the second messanger expresses sorrow for the royal house
Scholars
Morwood - dionysus disturbs citys social order
Roisman - Agves recognition is one of the most painful in traedy
Oedipus
women
Oedipus depicts quite a positive idea of women
Oedipus sees jocasta as his equal, and treats her well
Oedipus has a higher opinion of her than the chorus of elders
Slaves
Oedipus depicts slavery in quite a positive light
the slave that took oedipus to corinth shows care for oedipus by sparing him
Oedipus also shows the shame of slavery
Oedipus assumes that jocasta is horrified because she has assumed he is the son of a slave
Oedipus shows the neative aspects of slavery
Oedipus threatens to torture the shepherd for not answering his questions
A common theme of traedy was the question of how we should live in the polis
Philoctes is the only trraedy withouut any women in it