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"Do you think that Euripides intended us to sympathise with Medea?"
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"Do you think that Euripides intended us to sympathise with Medea?" Euripides has a reputation for not like women, so we would expect there to be a great deal of scorn and an unsympathetic depiction of Medea coming from Euripidies. I have four parts to the way that my sympathies turn in Medea. Firstly I am sympathetic, then when we find Medea very scheming and plotting to kill her husband, Creon and his daughter and she enjoys thinking about it, our sympathies change. Then my sympathies change when we meet Jason for the first time and when we see Medea deliberating over whether or not she will kill her children. These scenes produce unsympathetic feelings for Jason but then afterwards we see how evil Medea can really be. But we also see Medea deliberating whether or not to kill he children and we see into her heart. Then in the...
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