Love is parasitic. Oftentimes perceived positively, it silently renders its host subservient to lust, irrationality, anger, and vengeance. The manipulative Greek sorceress Medea falls victim to this curse in Euripides’ tragedy Medea, where after falling deeply in love, her husband Jason leaves her for another woman. Heartbroken, she goes on a murderous crusade to exact her revenge that even results in the death of her children. Aspects of Medea’s quest are apparent in the relationships in Jesmyn
Can the murderess, Medea, be justified for the killing of her own offspring? Medea is a play written by Euripides in the year 431 B.C. and basically is a tragic Greek mythological play that deals with themes such as love, marriage, betrayal and revenge. Summing it up, this play specifically is about how Medea is sent into exile due to Creon (the king) feeling threatened by her. He is feeling threatened by her because Jason (Medea’s husband) took another bride to bed which happened to be the king’s
of Tragic Hero (Greek Version of Tragic Hero) 2. Shakespearean Model of Tragic Hero reference with the Play Macbeth 3. Compare and Contrast both models 4. Analysis 5. Conclusion Tragic hero as defined by Aristotle A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgment error that leads to his/her own devastation. In reading Antigone, Medea and Hamlet, we observe the role of justice or revenge and it is the influence on each character’s choices when analyzing any “judgment error.” Aristotle says
In Shakespeare 's dramas, as long as the topics related to love and marriage, especially comedy, to reflect humanism, it is bound to create some images of heroes and heroines who are not afraid of secular obstacles, so that the feminist ideology will inevitably penetrate. Although feminist literature has not been really developed in this period, the earliest origin has a deep influence on the development of later feminist literature. At the beginning of the Renaissance, any ideological emancipation
Graham Greene’s novelistic growth turned to the political direction in the later span of his life and he seems to have been a marvellous exponent of the political fiction. His political imagination has diverse aspects of the politics―domestic politics, sexual politics, national politics and foreign politics―that have been veined in his novelistic upliftment. It is the result of his political views that The Comedians has a unique framework which is strengthened and solidified with the political fundaments
INTRODUCTION MOTHERHOOD Motherhood is a unique and universal gift bestowed upon woman by nature, conferring a great responsibility upon her. But is this ‘gift of motherhood,’ a boon or a bane, does motherhood elevate and empower or does it subjugate and enslave a mother? The answer isn’t simple because it is embedded in the intricacies that involve the various aspects and perspectives that influence motherhood. So complex is the issue that, even while defining motherhood one wonders where to begin