Gender Roles in Medea

Charlotte Bronte once said, "Women should generally be calm, but women feel like men, they need to exercise their talents and work hard like brothers. Men suffer It is stagnant, as is possible, and among their more privileged companions they should be limited to making puddings and knit stockings, playing the piano, and embroidered bags Bronte)

In Euripides' Medea, the hero abandoned the sex role of ancient Greek society. Medea despises sex by showing a tendency of "male" and "female". She sometimes removes her "feminine" mood and can show that society does not see what women can do. However, Medea did not abandon her role as a woman altogether, expressed many emotions of women through the play. Good evening by my previous plan? can not. But what is my problem? Do you want me to keep myself laughing away from Scotland for my enemies? Do I need to go through it? I understand how terrible a crime committed by me is, but have you passionately refused my decision? Is this worth saddening? You can not hope, you can not make my love laugh at your princess, fool, I live forever happy (Euripides 212 - 219)

More harm to her father and a strong challenge to the traditional sex role is the murder of Medea's brother Apsyrtus. Women's media has committed a murder that is a more general physical behavior with men, but due to the type of relationship between the Greek brothers and sisters this action does not challenge the typical sex role. In ancient Greece the relationship between brothers and sisters is always very close and it is said that the smallest quarrel and the brothers there are keeping her honor for the sisters. In ancient Greece, "(T) his brother was responsible for his sister, she relied on him." (Jan Bremmer, http: //ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1997/97.07.19.html) The murder of Medea's brothers symbolically destroyed all relations between her and her family Like, her declaration of independence. Therefore, Medea is seen as a challenge to the traditional sex role through her newly discovered independence.