However, Medea herself enters and speaks to the dark forces she has conjured and gives the cursed gift to her sons for delivery to Jason’s wedding. In doing this act Medea utilised the different levels of space by sitting, standing and bending over. It is through the use of space that the performance was sustainable to execute the overall theme of revenge. Medea sends poisoned robes to Glauce through her sons, symbolising her treachery and plan for vengeance. Jason and Medea also made effective use of the space through moments where the dialogue took place offstage, allowing the entrance to be more significant by gestures and lines anticipating the actor’s entrance.
Creon’s conflict involves two choices that seem equally righteous—that is, between the stability of the state and obedience to divine law. Initially, he wants to protect his people and stand against all odds. He is willing to listen to advice, take no man who does not support Thebes as his friend, and bury all bodies according to divine law. Instead, Creon opposes the gods’ law and does not follow through with his initial plans. Therefore, his tragic flaw is hubris, or excessive pride that causes his transgression again the gods.
In Moraga’s play, Medea has unresolved feelings for Jason… as did Medea in Euripides. Not only… but also both Jason’s have some sort of influence on both Medea’s that in any situation, they keep coming back to him. “He takes her into his arms. They kiss and begin to make love.” Correspondingly, in both plays, the children are somehow the “ultimate price” seeming how they can become the rightful heirs of their fathers’ expectations…
Lindsey Harris Joy Fisk English 9 5 March 2023 The Right Thing May Cause Terrible Outcomes: Analysis of Antigone in Antigone by Sophicles When her own family turned against her, Antigone had to make a decision between divine and human laws which would determine life or death when knowing that neglecting the right thing will allow her to live. In Antigone, by Sophocles, Antigone is a young woman who goes against human laws to do what she thinks is right to bury her brother knowing that the consequence is death. She has a brave, selfless, and stubborn heart that she follows only wanting to do what's right, causing a tragic ending for her and those around. Antigone is very brave for all of her actions, for she is the only one who would dare go against human law and stand up to Creon, the king, who is not afraid to punish anyone who goes against him.
The play I performed was Medea. The play was about an out of the ordinary women who went against her family and married a man. She abandoned her home to be with a man who then left her for a royal bed. She then went on a revenge rampage. I had to play two different people in the play .
The play titled "Antigone" by Sophocles is about hardships that the main character Antigone has to go through with her two brothers killing each other because, after the king, their father Oedipus, dies, the sons now have to rule the City of Thebes. The brothers agreed that they would lead for a year, and since Eteocles was the oldest, he headed first, but when it was Polyneices's turn, Eteocles didn't want to give the throne up. So they ended up going to war and killing each other. Unlike Polyneices, Eteocles celebrates his death while Polyneices rot in the field. Antigone is trying to have a proper burial for her brother Polyneices, but her evil uncle Creon does not want Polyneices to have a proper burial because they both went against the
Sophocles’ Antigone takes place in the Ancient Greek polis Thebes in which women were expected to be entirely obedient to men. Before the start of the play, the characters Etocles and Polynices kill each other in a struggle for control of Thebes, and the new king Creon deems Polynices a traitor to the city and creates an edict banning his burial. The play begins when the sister of Polynices, Antigone, attempts to convince her sister Ismene to help her bury their brother anyway, but she refuses to break the law. Unfortunately, Antigone is caught in the act and Creon is excessively stubborn about not setting her free. Throughout Antigone, Creon is impacted by gender roles more than any other character because he wants to maintain authority and feels that he would be mortified if he lost to a female.
In Euripides’ text The Medea, Medea can easily be painted as the villian. She is a woman who killed her own children in an attempt to spite her husband. But, by examining the text, we can see that she deserves some sympathy. She has little to no control over her own life and has to rely on the will of men. And as a foreigner in Corinth abandoned by her husband, she faces even more challenges than the native women of Corinth did.
Achilles and Hector in The Iliad and Medea and Jason Medea all have characteristics that eventually led to their downfall. Achilles is a furious man, and it leads him to do unspeakable things. Hector is very prideful, and it clouds his judgement. In Medea, Medea is revengeful, and all she thinks about his getting revenge. Jason is insensitive, and it cost him his family.
The Tragedy of Creon “Yes. Zeus did not announce those laws to me. And justice living with the gods below sent no such laws from man. ”(509-510) This quote is from Antigone and she is saying she hasn’t broken any law because the gods didn’t create this law.
In the ancient Greek society Medea resides in, the gods subsisted and connected with humanity, inductively ordaining sacrifice, escorting seafarers, and sustaining the order of humanity. Obviously deities such as Athena, Apollo, and Zeus were clearly inhumane: as immortal gods, they demanded a Greek culture full of heroism, where men lived masculine lives and the women were never to stand apart from the husband. With the Gods determined the heroic Greek culture of fourth and fifth century B.C. Greece, the Greeks condemned any man or woman who dared to break the traditional roles the gods ordained; for both males and females there was an demanding order that humans were not to disobey. In Medea, Medea ultimately liberates from her traditional
As the play begins, Medea has stopped eating and spends her days locked within her own house. She can be heard moaning and rambling from within her home. She even wishes she would die, saying things like, “I am miserable, unhappy in my labors! Oh me, I wish I were dead.” As we as, “I wish I could cast off this hateful life and take my rest in death!”
Medea plots her revenge by murdering the king, the bride and her two children in order to make Jason suffer and take away everything Jason cared about. The Greek gods felt that Medea was in her right and they proved this by allowing and even helping her escape in the end of the play
Her despair and grief intrigued everyone in Corinth which led to the appearance of the chorus. Since Medea is a foreigner in their city, it was easier for them to judge Medea for they do not know her. They thought that Medea’s reaction was too much and since she is a woman, she had no rights to act that way. Medea was too devastated to show up yet she wanted to point out her side. She shared her heart breaking story of how Jason left her and their children for Princess Glauke.
Sophocles had an enormous impact on Greek theater due to three theatrical innovations he made: the addition of a third actor, ending the custom of presenting tragedies as linked trilogies, and the increase of the chorus from twelve to fifteen. The three greatest classical tragedians are Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides, but Sophocles is known as the greatest dramatist in Western literature. Due to innovations he made to Greek theater and the plays he wrote, Sophocles is a more successful dramatist than Aeschylus and Euripides. He wrote 123 plays during his lifetime and of those, seven survive to this day. Sophocles surviving tragedies are still known to this day because of “Sophocles' technical skill as a dramatist, unforgettable characters,
