CLASSIC 143A Study Guide - Final Guide: Potiphar And His Wife, Euripides, A Messenger
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Choose one tragedy of euripides among hippolytus, trojan women and ion and discuss the role that gender conflict plays in its thematic construct. Big ideas: exaggerated self-confidence results in punishment from. Aphrodite: unstable relationship between language, perception, and reality, eros the most dangerous and psychomatic forces. From kalyptomenos to stephanophoros: phaedra"s love was originally more shameless and she stayed alive to bear false witness against hippolytus. Potiphar motif and contemporary connection: role of the generally distrusted stepmother, widow remarries, new wife who is around same age as stepson enters picture; creates opportunity for awkwardness. Dualism: there isn"t a clear hero and villain in this play, hippolytus isn"t perfect he is cocky and believes he is too good for woman, in particular, aphrodite. Since i am pure, i greet this one (aphrodite) from afar . Backgrounds: hippolytus son of hippolyta, queen of the amazons who hated sex, phaedra cretan and daughter of pasiphae who bore the minotaur.
