CLA232H1 Lecture : Wednesday February 15.docx
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Barbarian witchy women and jason her husband a greek hero. Audience was mostly male and male mind set. If there were women in the audience they would mostly be prostitutes or barbarians, still very few of them. The plays were chosen by the people- citizens paid for plays. Therefore the play would come down on the male side. The foreigner women is more rational, superior than the greek man. Play makes us empathize with the women- the play lets us in to the women"s emotions. The greek man in the audience play the women as the greek male audience plays out in their mind how it would be like to be a women. Masculine culture that is constantly exploring what it would be like to be a women. She is a foreigner- she is more of an exile. She has a wild nature- compared to as a tiger.
