... 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 ... is, even though Medea is not from Corinth she was still faithful and obedient to her husband but wasn't fully aware of the expectations of women and men which made her question Jason's "oaths" for his marriage. Femin...

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... be glorified domestic servants, serving at their husband's will. However, the main character in "Medea" by Euripides is a representation of feminist feelings and thoughts that are contrary to those that women were expected to have. Medea is shown at the beginning of the play as a disgruntled and 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 ... , ...

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... a civilized world. Women of Corinth were expected to be obedient for "Obedience - and in marriage that's the saving thing, when a wife obediently accepts her husbands will" (Euripides 17). As a foreign woman, coming to Corinth, Medea is exposed to new laws and customs different from her own, she states that she "needs the skill of magic, to find out what her home could ... contrasting relationship between these characters is that, the more successful the foil becomes, the easier it is to possibly misjudge Medea - highlighting her faults and most likely to find her guilty. Therefore, the...

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