... tragic hero must also posses a strong mind, a relentless nature, and a willingness to kill. However, occasionally one will come across a tragic hero who follows yet another type of code; that of Homer. By following this code, which is comprised of kleos, time, sincerity, and speaking ability, a tragic hero is able to reach his destination by walking a different path. Certainly there are areas in which the codes ... marriage. Therefore, she absolutely insists that justice prevails. In her speech to Creon, Medea comes out and legitimates her position to take revenge against Jason. By convey...

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... and my husband no one of them shall hurt me and not suffer for it!" This quote exhibits Medea planning her heroic revenge on her enemies; however, this soon changes after her meeting with Aegeus. Even though she still intends on punishing Jason, she will now do it through his two sons, which unfortunately breaks the heroic code "do good to one's friends ... ". Here Medea has partially lost her heroic outfit in front of the audience. However, she still ... uses "sex jealousy" to dismiss her pain, whilst rationalising his actions. It is cruel and insulting and severely must be a significa...

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... was in love with him, she went all out to pave way for Jason's prosperity. After Jason deserted her for reasons of expediency, she decided to put everything that was dear to him at stake so as to exact revenge from him. For instance, she is widely criticised by almost all the characters in the play for her decision to kill her ... does not deserve to make her own choices according to her own likes and dislikes. On the face of it, Medea deserves admonition and reproach for having violated this sacred code of the patriarchal society. However, she successfully justifies her defiance and re...

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... of a rejected foreign wife, who was to kill her husband's new wife, the bride's father, and finally her own children, must have made the audience which saw it for the first time in 431 B.C.E a bit uneasy. Heroes, it was well known, were violent beings and since they lived and died by the simple code ... "help your friends and hurt your enemies- it was only to be expected that their revenges, when they felt themselves unjustly treated, would be huge and deadly. The epic poems [i.e., Homer's Iliad and Odyssey] do not really question Achilles' right to bring destruction on the Greek army to...

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