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Contrasts and Comparisons between Medea and Clytemnestra

In reaction, the nurse relates that Medea, "the hapless wife, thus scorned...lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

'Trunk Theater' and Euripides' Medea

In five pages this paper examines a 'trunk theater' rural school production of Medea, the Greek tragedy by Euripides....

Medea Characterization by Euripides

In three pages this research paper contends that the playwright conceived of Medea as a character that would inspire sympathy in a...

Society of Ancient Greece and Women

This paper examines how women in Ancient Greek society were portrayed in a comparative analysis of the plays Lysistrata by Aristop...

Female Sexuality in House of Bernarda Alba

collective unconscious (Allen 175). Therefore, Maria Josefa expressing her desire to marry a "handsome male on the shore of the oc...

Women in Ancient Greece

conceive was thus a serious problem" (Women in the Ancient World). Now, of course one could also argue that this was a patriarch...

Shaw’s Pygmalion, Euripides’ Medea

expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...

Roles of Women in the Works of Euripides and Aeschylus

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this paper examines how women's social roles are depicted in Medea by Euripides and Agamemnon by ...

Carol Gilligan/Female Moral Development

and sweet, she becomes increasingly corrupted by her exposure to "the Plastics," which refers to the clique of the three most pop...

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill

forced to make in their lives regarding who and what they will ultimately become as individuals. "Top" Women of History The chara...

Assessment of Arguments Presented by Medea and Jason in Euripides’ Medea

Medea would also benefit: "What luckier chance could I have come across than this, An exile to marry the daughter of the king? It ...

Medea, An Overview

This essay presents an overview of Medea in Greek mythology, referring to scholarly assessment of ancient sources and also the way...

Women’s Refusal in Euripides’ Medea and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...

The Role of the Gods in "Medea"

they were interested in seeing this story play out once again, and that they found meaning in it. It seems logical to assume that ...

Oedipus and Medea: Leadership and Kingship

watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...

Feminist and Legal Elements in Trifles.

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the play Trifles and how it relates to the rights of women at the time. This paper includes...

Critical Analysis: The Amish

the standards of natural application. The uncomplicated lifestyle the Amish lead is often subject to ridicule and contempt from o...

Empowerment in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Medea by Euripides

they professed to love, with Medea most certainly taking the deed to great extremes. It is important for the student to understan...

Euripides' Medea and Ibsen's Nora

society has determined what their roles are and how long they are to enact them. Enter Nora and Medea, who both prove to have min...

Imagining if Medea Had Been Written by Euripides and Not Sophocles

he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...

Getting Out by Marsha Norman

In 5 pages this paper discusses the dual identities of the 1983 play's protagonist and the dual women's realities of the Sixties a...

Heroism Critique by Euripides in Medea, The Bacchae, and Hippolytus

In seven pages this paper considers how the classical Greek dramatist critiqued heroism in a contrast of antiheroes Pentheus, Mede...

Medea, Oedipus Rex and Cruelty

Medea and Oedipus Rex are like many ancient Greek plays in dealing with a sub-theme of cruelty. This research paper examines the a...

Greek Mythology and Literature and the Gods' Incestuous Relationships

contribution to the image in Greek mythology is the story of Chiron, who was born of a union between Zeus and Ixion, the son of Ar...

Birth Defects and Vitamin A Overuse

In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...

Women in Medea and Lysistrata

In four pages this research paper contrasts and compares the portrayal of women and their roles in ancient Greek society as repres...

Greek Tragedies and 4 Views of Women

wife of Agamemnon who has been off fighting the Trojan War for ten years. The goddess Artemis had left the fleet organized by Aga...

Western Classical Literature and Women

was forbidden to her, period. It was not her place to try to reason why; it was her place to obey without question. This is what w...

Epic Hero Transformation in Greek Literature

In six pages this paper examines the transformation of the epic hero in ancient Greek literary works such as Euripides' Medea, Sop...