Medea - A Feminist Perspective

Let us scrutinise how Euripides manages to portray Medea as the first notable precursor of the feminist perspective. A keen reader of the Greek Tragedy may argue that there are various other female characters that have acquired considerable limelight. Aeschylus’ Clytemnestra , Sophocles’ Antigone and Euripides’ Hecabe and Andromache may be quoted as pertinent examples to substantiate this objection. A close study of all these characters would reveal that none of them happens to be in the

She aspires for all those things, which have traditionally been the undisputed domain of men. Whereas, almost all the other female characters live under the shadow of their male relations. All their aspirations, choices and actions revolve around their respective male kith and kin. One is compelled to recall in this context that the status of women in the Greek society was equivalent to slaves. At best these women rouse our sympathy for being the victims of the patriarchal cruelties. Medea on the other hand sends shivers down the spines of those who advocate the patriarchal model. She is out to rub shoulders with men because she can beat them at their game. She can snatch away from them what they have denied her. However, I postpone an in depth analysis of her character and situation to be done in the following pages.

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