A Close Reading of Euripides' Medea

Please carefully read Medea's first public statement, "protest speech". It is one of the best part of the show, showing complex and sometimes conflicting sexual expressions. Medea's calm reasoning, especially after eliminating despair and hatred, gathered for the first time in crisis and demonstrated her ability to pursue her hidden agenda with determination. This division is a certain level of gender bias in her personality.

Medea of ​​Euripides and Medea of ​​Seneca are Medea's two surviving ancient tragedies. There are significant differences and contrasts in these two versions in several ways. Euripides depicted Medea as a more human figure. She is a synonym of a suppressed housewife who can only commit a crime committed after suffering. Seneca's Medea is revening more than Euripides, she was angry from the start. The Seneca version also draws Medea as a revenge witch, in the Euripides version it is known as a witch and has a great skill with poison and potion, but it is not like the beauty of Seneca. Dea is equally important and important. The two poets provided a clear depiction and personality of Medea. The most striking of them was the depiction of Medea himself and the action of the Choir against her.

In this article, I extended the interpretation of Iayad of Shay to Medea of ​​Euripides which was done on the eve of the Peloponnesos war of 431 BC. Euripides did not play a male soldier as its hero, but the play said that Medea suffered from trauma in the background, traitor, traitor, isolation and the resulting symptoms, Shay said these symptoms as sustained psychological harm . Veterans. Because Euripides' Medea is a complex figure that involves frequent confusion between the conflict features (martial arts and maternity, men and women, Greece and savages), I need some importance to ignore others relatively You must concentrate on attributes. (3) However, this test is not intended to dismiss or replace other useful readings of the play, nor is it useful as a final determinant of the Medea army hero.