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Theme of Manipulation In this essay, I will discuss the themes of manipulation and how it is crucial to the play "The Medea" by Euripides. This play revolves around how the passion of a woman for a man has, in turn, created a hamartia for herself, from a woman of a high status and extreme cleverness and cunningness, degraded down to a woman who has lost her stature and letting her passion smudge the edges of conscience and consequences. Firstly, the theme of manipulation starts on page 63, lines 132 onwards, where, before the dialogue between Medea and the chorus of Corinthian women, Medea was heard crying angry cries of resentment and bitterness about the betrayal of her husband. However, when she appears in front of the Chorus, her attitude and her surprising calmness towards the chorus of Corinthian women, in this scene, she portrays a woman who is in need of...

