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Select two characters from the works Medea and Pygmalion and compare the means by which these characters are constructed and developed
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Select two characters from the works Medea and Pygmalion and compare the means by which these characters are constructed and developed. Euripides and Shaw employ a range of techniques to present the compelling personas of their female protagonists, Medea and Eliza. The intense emotional transformation of Medea and Eliza's striking physical change are formed by such methods as language, tone, stage direction and theme development. In addition, the course of action the characters take influences the way they are perceived, as does the way the other character's view them. Each technique is important and the playwright must carefully consider all of them when constructing and developing their character. Euripides emphasizes Medea's intelligence, she is cunning and clever yet feared and despised for having qualities typically associated with masculinity. Aegeus comments, "Certainly; a brain like yours is what is needed" and Creon fears her for being a "clever woman skilled in many evil...
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