Medea Vs. Hedda Gabbler

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any strong hold on the situation that will turn out successfully. This is proven in the end when Hedda commits suicide-she has lost control and is not strong enough to handle the ensuing scandal. Although out of the two actions, the worst seems to be Medea’s, it is also Medea’s actions that merit the most excuse as defense. She was having everything taken away from her, and she could not stop it, so she took the only action possible to make Jason understand how he had wronged her. Medea and Hedda, different in motive, actually are not all that different in their nature.
Medea and Hedda come from very different backgrounds, yet the way that they were raised can be compared with many similarities. Both Medea and Hedda were not raised as the proper woman should be, but rather, as women who are different, the exceptions. They each have been raised strong willed and independent, able to think by themselves and fight their own battles. The flaw, it seems, is that in both cases, ...

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