ENGL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Euripides
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Adapting a traditional legend of medea, but in a shocking way by killing her own children and gets away with it: flies away with her grandfather and no punishment. In the beginning you can feel sympathy for her just because jason let her and her children. Euripides makes the plan to make us feel sympathy for medea and as well has the chorus make us sway towards sympathy for her. Start with medea and that would be our first impression: seems vulnerable and weak in the beginning of the play, but the end of the play, the roles are reversed. The power is reversed as the beginning is where medea is almost pitied. In the play, the men would probably not sympathize medea. The chorus is draws our sympathy towards medea. Jason broken a very important greek code: jason and medea aren"t actually married, but common law.
