... intentionally criticizes this superior knowledge of hers, claiming that she does not know much to avoid distrust; she finally succeeds in gaining pity. Although King Creon suspects Medea, "I am afraid of you. You are a clever woman, versed in evil arts I hear that you are threatening, so they tell me, to do ... solely focus on revenge and prevents her severe rage from interfering her plan so she can achieve her destructive goal. Upon seeing her disloyal husband, Medea can no longer contain her fury and bitterness. She even goes on cursing, or in a way prophesying this new wedding, "But ...

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... is more of a disapproval of passion, revenge and arrogant pride. Euripides explores these ideas in his play. At the start of the play Medea Euripides gives Medea an opening speech to the chorus in which she reminds the audience of the powerless position of women in Greek society by referring to the women ... as "wretched creatures" and by stating that they do anything for their men. The chorus strengthen this unequal gender position by agreeing for Medea to get her revenge by saying "you will be right to exact vengeance from your husband". In Greek society women did not have the ... to ...

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... depressed alien woman. She feels that women as a whole receive appalling injustices due to the necessity of marriage, followed by near enslavement by their husbands. Medea also reveals in her monologue that, "But when a man is vexed with what he finds indoors, he goeth forth and rids his soul of its ... with their sorry reasoning, for I would gladly take my stand in battle array three times o'er, than once give birth." (Euripides) In saying this, Medea is showing that she truly has several feministic beliefs. She explains that she doesn"t understand that men can have friends, while wome...

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