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Essay Galaxy - Medea Is A Tragic Feminist Text
Medea Is A Tragic Feminist Text
Medea is a tragic text due to it containing a tragic hero, Medea, who due to her harmartia challenges the dominant views of femininity in the patriarchal society of the epoch, thus furthermore making it a feminist text. While pursuing her ambition Medea disregards many of the feminine stereotypes/ characteristics of the patriarchal Greek society. Throughout this feminist text Medea is exposed as being a tragic hero via the observations and wisdom of the chorus.
Tragedy defined by Aristotle is "any serious and dignified drama that describes a conflict between the hero(protagonist) and a superior force (destiny, chance, society, god) and reaches a sorrowful conclusion that arouses pity or fear in the audience."(Aristotle on Tragedy, http://www.planetpapers.c....
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