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The Medea: Women's Rights - Online Term Paper

The Medea: Women's Rights

Personal vengeance is not a flattering characteristic. When people
wish to change a situation they are in it is wise to use rational methods.
In Euripides' Medea, Medea and all the women of fifth century Athens wee
not treated well. By examining Medea's continuous use of evil and her plot
to kill her own children, Creon, and the princess, it will be clear that
the Medea was not a plea for women's liberation for it was a deceitful plan
of revenge.
In the first episode in the Medea, Medea appeals to the women in
the Corinthian chorus with words about their sad predicament. She speaks
about how they must buy a husband for a huge price. How they are not
treated well by their husbands who ...

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done to me - Him and his father in law and the girl
who married him." (260-263) It may have seemed in the beginning of the
monologue that Medea was out to join forces with the other women in
complaint to the way they are treated, but Medea was out for revenge. That
was underling everything she said.
When one looks at the women's liberation movement that occurred in
the united states history, one will see that the women wanted to appear
stable and sane. The women wanted equal rights and they used logical and
rational arguments. If liberating women was what was in Medea's mind she
would have tried to put women in a positive light. Instead she resorted to
her evil, and used the plight of women as part of her justification to
avenge what had been done to her.
Women were known to be good at evil doing. The chorus states,
"Women are paid their due. No more shall evil sounding fame be theirs".
Medea explains how she killed for and was deceitful for her love of Jason.
She even ...

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Added: 5/2/2004 01:04:51 PM
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