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Medea Is A Tragic Feminist Text - Paper

Medea Is A Tragic Feminist Text

Medea is a tragic text due to it containing a tragic hero, Medea, who due to her harmartia challenges the dominant views of femininity in the patriarchal society of the epoch, thus furthermore making it a feminist text. While pursuing her ambition Medea disregards many of the feminine stereotypes/ characteristics of the patriarchal Greek society. Throughout this feminist text Medea is exposed as being a tragic hero via the observations and wisdom of the chorus.
Tragedy defined by Aristotle is "any serious and dignified drama that describes a conflict between the hero(protagonist) and a superior force (destiny, chance, society, god) and reaches a sorrowful conclusion that arouses pity or ...

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the audiences pity and terror and, due to their harmartia is led to their ultimate downfall. Medea is the tragic hero in this play and her tragic flaw is revenge and passion which, while challenging feminine stereotypes of the male dominant Greek society to achieve them, lead to her tragic downfall.
Jason betrays Medea by marring another woman (the princess) this enrages Medea and she starts to question the role and position of women in the patriarchal society. "Are we women not the wretchedness? We scratch and save a dowry to buy a man…Our lives depends on how his lordship feels. For better for worse we can’t divorce him."(p.8, Medea). However, "a husband tired of domesticity, Goes out sees friends and enjoys himself…."(p.8and 9, Medea). This shows the inequality and disempowerment of women in society of the time. Medea is upset and angry about this view that society has of women and wants revenge on Jason and to achieve this she believes she has to have power(a masculine ...

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Added: 7/13/2007 09:57:13 PM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Free Paper
Words: 1216
Pages: 5

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