Medea

Submitted by: Rhys

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In this paper, I am attempting to answer questions such as how Medea behaves like a female, how she acts heroically from a male point of view, why she killed her children, if she could have achieved her goal without killing them, if the murder was motivated by her barbarian origins, and how she deals with the pain of killing her children. As an introduction to the play, the status of women in Greek society should be briefly discussed In general, women had very few rights In the eyes of men, the main purposes of women in Greek society were to do housework such as cooking and cleaning, and bear children They could not vote, own property, or choose a husband, and had to be represented by men in all legal proceedings In some ways, these Greek women were almost like slaves There is a definite relationship between this subordination of women and what transpires in the play