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Euripides' Medea and Seneca's Medea are different in many parts of the two stories
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... Laura Harris Don't Mess with Medea; Seneca vs. Euripides Euripides' Medea and Seneca's Medea are different in many parts of the two stories. One part that's more crucial than the others, and sets the differences between both the plays from the beginning, is the characterization and motivations of Medea. Euripides sets the tone with an isolated, hopeless Medea, sobbing from inside her home. She cries out to the gods about the injustices done to her. Medea's entire predicament is presented to the audience by her Nurse. Without having to see and hear Medea directly, she is distanced from the viewers making her revenge more thoughtful and planned. "But now her world has turned to enmity, and wounds her where her affection's deepest. Jason has betrayed his own sons, and my mistress, for a royal bed, for alliance with the king of Corinth. He has married Glauce, Creon's daughter. Poor Medea!...I am afraid
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