... rebel against powerful men who impose an injustice on them "Antigone defies Creon's law, Medea gets revenge on Jason. But their motives for rebellion are quite different. Medea's primary motive is revenge, but she also protests against women's discrimination. This makes her a feminist. Antigone is motivated by the desire to bury her brother. At the same time she protests against unjust ... nothing but marry, and once married they become their husband's slave. And then they can never leave him, no matter how horrible a person he is. In this way Medea depicts herself as a feminist. The cho...

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... 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 ... for I would gladly take my stand in battle array three times o'er, than once give b...

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... sexual matters applied, with men free to take other sexual partners but women being punished severely for adultery. In the play Jason blames Medea for sexual jealously and questions why she is acting the way she 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. Feminism is not the subject of the play but feminist issues are discovered in it. Plays ... like Aegeus. Women may have been less valued in Greek society, Euripides ...

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... role in the play. Euripides" has also been described as a feminist and a misogynist. To discuss the gap between males and females we need to look at the roles of Medea, Jason, The Chorus, and the Servants. The play Medea may seem a peek into the future but the reality of it is that it is based on all the happening of the time that it was ... elder male parts into female and then goes deeply into the concept that women can and will be more then they seem. Medea is the main character of the play. She is a woman who wants to strive in a "man's world". As Medea is a woman of extreme behavio...

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The current state of the female gender depends wildly upon whether or not women are of the western culture. However, since the majority of the world and other societies looks upon western culture for direction and influence, women everywhere have similar guidelines and oppressions bestowed on them. Females are constantly told to be nearly emaciating thin, almost impossibly fit with Britney Spear's-like abs, too sexy for any age, and beyond anatomically correct. And, females have to appear stunningly gorgeous at every second of every day. Women have to be sexy and classy at the same time, which...

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