Medea
As an evil woman myself, I could fully understand this play. (Just a bit of a joke there.) Throughout the many plays that came before Medea, the themes dealt with prophecies or the gods. Media took a step beyond the simple, almost always predicted plots and brought the audience a new way to look at a story. Media was presented as a psychological play in a few ways. It brought in more dialogue, showed the thoughts and feelings of the main characters and brought about a conclusion both confusing and profound. Before Medea, most Greek plays had the main narration to be done by the chorus. The chorus tells us what has transpired before the play begins, as well as what events might take place between scenes, such as horrible acts of violence that were usually not seen on stage. The characters, besides the chorus, were very simple. They were displayed with one main motive or feeling like revenge or malice and barely any dialogue. This was the case in the play Agamemnon. For example, on page 523 of our text, the chorus comes in and tells of the past and why Agamemnon and Menelaus went to war. They also tell of the reason why Clytaemnestra is angry. They speak until page 529 when Clytaemnestra recites a few lines. . . .
“Friends, when I saw that bright look in the children’s eyes. 644) You, as the audience, are still left wondering why the king would do such a thing. 620) So that even though Oedipus committed these crimes he was not to blame. “You are fated to couple with your mother, you will bring a breed of children into the light no man can bear to see – you will kill your father, the one who gave you life. It was the gods that fated him for those acts. 664) Medea shows doubt within herself making her character internally conflicted with her own feelings. This begins to open the plot and captures the audience’s attention. By not having the chorus tell us everything and letting the characters reveal the plot in Medea, Euripides gave the play more complexity. His play was based on the prophecy that Oedipus received. She comes to the conclusion that she must kill her husband’s new bride, the King and also her children.
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