... picture of a man who appears to have everything, and by doing nothing beyond seeking truth, loses everything, touches a universal anxiety" (Walton 3). Both Medea and Oedipus are faced with life changing events. How they individually handle the events is their greatest difference. Emotional reactions to adversity in tragedy vary from ... character to character and are based on personality, past experience, or exposure to many different situations during childhood. Medea is a woman who sacrificed greatly to be with Jason; the man she fell in love with and later married. She not only helped...

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... the fairer sex in their works. The presence of strong female lead characters, such as the title protagonists in Sophocles" Antigone and Euripides" Medea, shows that women do not always have to remain passive and in the background of a plot. In fact, the aforementioned women have personalities ... men, committing daring deeds and following their instincts. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate as such these laudable qualities embodied by Antigone and Medea, and prove that the two are, indeed, examples of brave, heroic females. Antigone, which was written by Sophocles in 422 b.c., is ...

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