Euripides' explores the devastating features of the post-war landscape in The Women of Troy. His strong pacifist and feminist opinions are accentuated repeatedly throughout his play through the environment of extreme cruelty and torment after war; an environment without a glimmer of hope, especially for women. Euripides conveys the post-war surroundings of extreme suffering and torment mostly through Hecabe, the widow of the Troy's King Priam and the only living symbol of Troy. The chorus, a small group of women waiting for their departure into slavery for the Greek victors, further shows the profound suffering that is found after war. Euripides expresses the inhumanity following war through the impersonal nature of the decisions being made by the Greek soldiers and the chorus' description of the immoral deeds they have performed.
             Euripides uses the constant recumbent figure of Hecabe to show the hopelessness that has been left since Troy's plight. As she is the only living symbol of Troy, Hecabe highlights how defeated the Trojans are and causes a sense of despair and profound suffering through her lamentation of becoming a slave juxtapositioned with happy memories of 'cheerful Phrygian music'. Euripides uses this image of happiness suffocated by the negativity of what is to happen to accentuate and capture the depth of her suffering in a post-war setting, and by her prostate figure shows she has no hope left.
             Euripides uses the chorus of women to show the overwhelming suffering in a situation after war. The chorus represents the captured women of Troy as a group rather than individuals and is treated as 'chattels of the Dorian State' for the Greek conquerors, the women await their fate to find out who goes where, on what ship and with which Greek. Euripides uses this to accentuate the insensitivity of war on the women and the huge extents of suffering they have to be put through
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