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Monster Essays - The Medea: Women's Rights
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
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