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Who do you think is the more tragic hero in the Medea?
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Who do you think is the more tragic hero in the Medea? Euripides Medea opens in a state of conflict. Jason has abandoned his wife and children. He hopes to advance his situation by marrying Glauce the daughter of Creon, the King of Corinth. Medea is a play about a woman, who is betrayed by her husband and exiled from her city with her children. In an outburst of enraged passion she avenges herself by first killing Jason's new fiancée and father, and then murdering her own children. Although Medea possesses certain traits of that of a heroine and that of a villain it is hard to identify her as a character solely of one of these. We have to identify her as a villain to understand her traits and why she acts the way she does. Jason, on the other hand is depicted as an opportunist, full of self absorption,...
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