Charlotte Cahane

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Term Paper Title	Charlotte Cahane
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Charlotte Cahane
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THE MEDEA

     Personal vengeance is not a flattering characteristic.  When people wish to change a situation they are in it is wise to use rational methods.  In Euripides' Medea, Medea and all the women of fifth century Athens wee not treated well.  By examining Medea's continuous use of evil and her plot to kill her own children, Creon, and the princess, it will be clear that the Medea was not a plea for women's liberation for it was a deceitful plan of revenge.
     In the first episode in the Medea, Medea appeals to the women in the Corinthian chorus with words about their sad predicament.  She speaks about how they must buy a husband for a huge price.  How they are not treated well by their husbands who are not always faithful. Women are not recognized for the hard pains of labor that are more painful then fighting a war.  At first glance this can seem to be the beginning of a plea for liberation.  Then Medea ruins it by getting personal and shows her selfish side.  She states that it is twice as hard for her as a foreigner without a country.  Then she gives her reason for getting the women to sympathize with her.  "If I can find the means or devise any scheme to pay my husband back for what he has done to me - Him and his father in law and the girl who married him." (260-263)  It may have seemed in the beginning of the monologue that Medea was out to join forces with the other women in complaint to the way they are treated, but Medea was out for revenge.  That was underling everything she said.
     When one looks at the women's liberation movement that occurred in the united states history, one will see that the women wanted to appear stable and sane.  The women wanted equal rights and they used logical and rational arguments.  If liberating women was what was in Medea's mind she would have tried to put women in a positive light.  Instead she resorted to her evil, and used the plight of women as part of her justification to avenge what had been done to her.
     Women were known to be good at evil doing.  The chorus states, "Women are paid their due.  No more shall evil sounding fame be theirs".  Medea explains how she killed for and was deceitful for her love of Jason.  She even betrayed her own father.  This can be another plight of the women that they are expected to do anything for their husbands.  Again it's clear that this is not a plea for liberation.  Medea attempts to use the same methods that were used in the past, the evil, to ...

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