Although someone commit sin, we are still able to sympathise with them despite their wrong doing. Many of Euripides characters in his greek tragedy Medea face hardship and although they do wrong we are still able to sympathise for them. It is easy for the audience to empathise for Medea’s sons who are completely innocent and have done no wrong however, Euripides tests the audience’s emotions by creating characters such as Medea and Jason who both commit horrible deeds yet face extreme hardship. This hardship encourages the audience to feel sorry for characters however this is questioned when said character sins. Euripides challenges his audience, making them question if characters deserved the outcomes they endured.
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The audience is invited to feel sorry for Medea because she personifies the subordination of women in a supposed democracy. The inferiority of women such as the Nurse and the Chorus and in the beginning of the play Medea allows the audience to empathise for women in the greek patriarchal society in which Euripides creates. Throughout the play, Women are created by Euripides with traits of Phusis. In Greek culture, woman were considered to be full of phusis while men were considered nomos. Nomos relates to order, control and rationalism whereas phusis is to be full of emotion, to be irrational and driven by the uterus. This depiction of woman impels the reader to sympathise for all the women in the play who have no voice in a society dominated by men and who are deemed disposable. As evident in the opening of the play, Medea is left at home to look after the children while Jason is out doing as he pleases. In addition, men in the play are presented by Euripides as nobel, kings and heroes whereas women are illogical and emotional. Jason's degradation of women suggesting that “There should have been some other means for mankind to reproduce itself, without the need of a female sex; that would rid the world of all its troubles”, is a further display of the dominance of
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The audience is invited to feel sorry for Medea because she personifies the subordination of women in a supposed democracy. The inferiority of women such as the Nurse and the Chorus and in the beginning of the play Medea allows the audience to empathise for women in the greek patriarchal society in which Euripides creates. Throughout the play, Women are created by Euripides with traits of Phusis. In Greek culture, woman were considered to be full of phusis while men were considered nomos. Nomos relates to order, control and rationalism whereas phusis is to be full of emotion, to be irrational and driven by the uterus. This depiction of woman impels the reader to sympathise for all the women in the play who have no voice in a society dominated by men and who are deemed disposable. As evident in the opening of the play, Medea is left at home to look after the children while Jason is out doing as he pleases. In addition, men in the play are presented by Euripides as nobel, kings and heroes whereas women are illogical and emotional. Jason's degradation of women suggesting that “There should have been some other means for mankind to reproduce itself, without the need of a female sex; that would rid the world of all its troubles”, is a further display of the dominance of