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Euripides ‘The Medea’ - Coggle Diagram
Euripides ‘The Medea’
Medea
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Kills Creon, Glauce and her own children
Refuses to give the children’s bodies to Jason, instead intends to take them to Temple of Hera
Becomes a Goddess?? Riding her grandfather, Helios’, Chariot at the end
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Uses Aegeus vulnerable situation to secure herself safety in exile, promises to help him with her magic
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Also makes use of deceit as a woman, gaining men’s trust, faking being like a stereotypical ‘Greek woman’
Medea’s actions could be argued as a claim to a heroic status in her attempts to seize control/ power of the situtation
Jason
Overall presented badly, disloyal to Medea in chosing a new wife
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Some sympathy felt, in how he has lost everything by the end of the play
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His reasoning to remarry is to better his existing family, royal Greek sons would strengthen him as an excile also
Lead into a false sense of security by Medea, agreeing to giving his new wife the gifts
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Chorus (women)
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As Greek women, do not condone Medea’s killing of her own children
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Nurse and Tutor
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Nurse sets the scene at the beginning of the play - audience already have a good awareness of the general myth however
Both discuss worry around Medea’s actions, how uncontrollable her anger is
Tutor reveals Creons intentions - learn about Medea’s rumoured excile before Creon announces it properly
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The Children
Unusually their death is seen in stable - they have a speaking role, makes their deaths more poignant
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death of the children - reasonable punishment for Jason, as he has broken his marriage oath, Medea taking this into her own hands is the issue
Their death is for intense revenge against Jason, as well as a terrible crime on the behalf of Medea
Creon
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Thinks that because she is a woman, she cannot do much harm in one day
Dies unaware what is happening to him, in love and worry for his daughter
Glauce
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Gives into the gifts due to their beauty and valueabilty - Medea is able to predict that she will take them
Dies horrendously - gruesome and ‘consumed by fire’ - Symbolism of Medea’s hatred for her? Symbolism of Medea’s release of anger towards Jason?
Messenger
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Describes the scenes of death within the palace, informing Medea that her poisons worked
Revenge described by the messenger is deceptively pretty, hidden within the gifts given to Glauce