The Role of Vengeance in Euripides’ Medea and Bacchae

The tragic heroes of Medea and Agaue, Medea and Bacchae of Euripides represent a similar idea. For both the plays, the plot is focused on the revenge of these two characters, so their desire of revenge is the main dynamism behind drama collisions. In any case, revenge by Medea and Agaue is the result of the most fundamental and instinctive emotional behavior without the most reasonable restraint. Therefore pursuit of women and their revenge will be representative of human thought and emotion.

In The Bacchae and Medea of ​​Euripides, there is a big dual opposition between the two plays. Binomial opposition, such as good and evil, is the opposite of the two terms. Binomial conflict is used to present aspects of contrast (Marvin, 1). In The Bacchae and Medea, Euripides uses binomial opposition to emphasize central themes. The important binary opposition to be used is men and women, foreigners and citizens, and God and men. The contrast between men and women is an important opposition between the two plays.

Euripides showed passion, love, and revenge on the inner emotions of Medea. The nature of the media is interpreted differently as if it plays the role of her "mother and wife" or fulfills the role of "primitive feminist". Feminist reading interprets dramas as "sympathetic exploration" as "disadvantage of becoming a woman of patriarchal society", or an expression of aversion to the attitude of feminist. Conflicting with this empathetic proposal (or reinforcing a more negative reading) is the media's brutal identity that will face the Greek audience of the 5th century.

The tragic heroes of Medea and Agaue, Medea and Bacchae of Euripides represent a similar idea. For both the plays, the plot is focused on the revenge of these two characters, so their desire of revenge is the main dynamism behind drama collisions. In any case, revenge by Medea and Agaue is the result of the most fundamental and instinctive emotional behavior without the most reasonable restraint. Therefore pursuit of women and their revenge will be representative of human thought and emotion.