... I will only focus on one of the three plays, called "The Libation Bearers". The other play I will be looking at is "Medea". Medea is the earliest tragedy of Euripides and in it we see a classic moral pattern. Aspects such as betrayal and revenge are explored in this play, such as also in ... mistress Cassandra. Clytaemnestra has also betrayed Agamemnon with her new lover, whom is none other than Aegisthus, the surviving son of Thyestes. Clytaemnestra takes revenge by killing Agamemnon for killing their innocent daughter Iphigeneia and the desire for power. This is were the play "The Liba...

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... of arranging her own marriage, and would often have their marriage arranged while very young. Women, to men were usually just seen as a means of producing children, more importantly a son. Euripides Medea is one of the tragedies that shows a woman dominating the rest of the characters in the play. This female character throughout the play criticises the conditions of women and they ... part in bridal song, the bridal bed, denied the joy of marriage, rasing children" After Antigone has died, Creon learns from the seer Teiresias, that the gods have been offended by the pollution of Polyne...

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... apart. Sophocles's character Oedipus ends up killing his father, losing his kingdom and his wife and mother, and becoming a blind, wandering outcast for the rest of his life. Jason in Euripides's Medea deserts his family for a new marriage which he hopes will further his station, but his old wife kills his new wife and his children, ending his hopes for a shining future ... ... Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to people's houses," says the nurse in the beginning of Euripides's play Medea (119-130). She is foreshadowing the theme of the ...

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