Stereotypes Of The Greek Woman In Medea De Euripides

Stereotypes of the Greek woman in Medea de Euripides

Reflection on Medea

How was your understanding of the cultural and contextual considerations of the work through interactive oral activity? Euripides one of the great Greek tragic poets of antiquity wrote Medea, with this work it was represented in the first year of the 87th Olympiad (431. C.), was part of a tetralogy with the Filoctete tragedies, this was carried out in honor of the god Dionysus, they were presented through religious and ritual events. The tragedy theater was represented within the framework of the great Dionysias in honor of the God, this was done every end of March. Likewise, the work belongs to the literary current of classicism, tendency or artistic and literary style that is characterized by the search for serenity, balance and harmony of the forms of the Greco-Roman tradition. where I learned that the theater structure is divided into five parts (prologue, eyelids, episodes, we are and exodus).

On the other hand, there were aspects that were easy to understand, for example: the marginalization of female sex, can only be seen in contemporary theater, where all members to be parts of the representation were male. As also female infanticide it was frequent that he presented himself in Medea, he is very similar to the life that the woman currently possesses, in the era of globalization, femicide, wives beaten by her husbands. In addition, identify Medea as a symbolic character that represents the female population with a revolutionary character.

On the other hand, he manages.

After the interactive oral activity I learned many technical aspects that Euripides use in the construction of the work, such as dialogues, the plot, monologues, among others. What caught my attention the most was the way the author broke the stereotypes of the woman, well for that situation it was in this way, analyzing the aforementioned of women.

Therefore, I can say that, from the activity, I could develop an understanding of Greek society as well as the rituals that were made to the gods that are evident in the work. The most transcendental technique used by the author was to break the female ideologies using the protagonist Medea a character that symbolizes immeasurable.

Transgression of the female world

Euripides was one of the three great Greek tragic poets of antiquity, along with Esquilo and Sophocles. One of its most representative literary products is Dramatic work published in the year 431 to.C. in which the social conventions of ancient Greece are reflected and as they can oppose by a woman, that is, the protagonist of this work. Euripides has a rationalist revisionist style, also known as the attempt of a reform to the formal structure of tragedy. This is evidenced through the following characteristics: to place as protagonists free women who achieve their self-realization and satirize many heroes typical of Greek mythology. Therefore, Euripides creates the protagonist Medea as a symbolic character to break the stereotype of the Greek woman.

First, the symbolic character represents female autonomy from the antithesis to the stereotype of women in the conjugal life of ancient Greece. Through this resource the author in his work projects an opposition to strictly patriarchal society where women’s marital life is accepted by all as a normal way of life, despite being a lifestyle that affects women in their relationshipswith the outside.

Thus, Euripides through the character presented opposes marriage by holding that it is "a white prison" for women. "You started for that, more after having married this man and having given birth to my children, you annihilated them by virtue of a marriage bed and a bed". It is evidenced by recognition by Medea of marriage as a prison because the woman was perennial to the husband and located at the last level of Greek social status, which causes her deep resentment towards society. Jason mentions the tragedy based on the lone bed that I am looking for Medea.

In addition, the ostedal character faces the woman in ancient Greece that represents an unnecessary evil for man. The following appointment that Medea performs only so that Jason gets the treasure is shown in the following appointment;"She deplores her beloved father, to her land and her palace to whom she abandoned by betraying them by a man". The atrocities that a woman can make for keeping her husband save the stereotype of symbolizing a burden for man.

Likewise, the character opposes a girl without opinion in marriage decisions, which was the exclusive competitiveness of the father. Medea goes for her own will in Jason, without taking into account the tracing that is fulfilled in Greece, the nurse only regrets by the decision she makes;“Medea would not have sailed to the towers of the Earth of Yolco hit in the soul by Jason’s passion. Well, the greatest salvation is when the woman does not disagree ". One of the most representative acts in conjugal life is when the protagonist breaks with the stereotypes of concerted marriage by facing her father, the highest authority within the Greek families

In short, the marital life at that time was very contradictory to what Medea sought with his trances, either facing the father, his people or the society that was presented. The same fact of making a difference for the entire female society makes him a woman who opposes the stereotypes that were.

Second, the symbolic character embodies female intelligence that faces female inferiority by nature with respect to man. That is, when a structural inequality between women and men with negative consequences to women in ancient grace is shown, Euripides presents a character that faces this stereotype, without being left behind.

In this way, it is speculated that the lucid character reveals that the woman is not incapable of self-assessing due to her mental inability. Medea’s actions show their self-realization contrasting with the female weakness of Greek woman. After the tragedy of the Medea children is protected;“He stops in that effort and, if you need me, say if you want something, but you will never touch me with your hand. Such carriage has given us Helio, my father’s father, amparo de la Enemigo hand ”.

Together the destruction that the Greek woman was unable to logically reason to be able to make an artifice, remove the mask the symbolic character. By convincing that his children lived with his father, he has a purpose beyond this for his revenge;“More to you, children, not without reflection your father will seek with the gods a great salvation. Well, I think you will be the first in this land Corinthia along with your brothers ”. Medea sigULly plans the artifice of his revenge breaking with the stereotypes of being able to logically think of the Greek woman.

Therefore, Medea faces an entire society to demonstrate that the female gender if they have an important value. Having a female social life parallel to the time was not convenient, she is a paradigm that shows the power of a woman’s intelligence.

Third, Medea appears as an honor as a symbol of irrationality according to the Greek model to punish justice. Euripides represents in the work the claim of the dignity and value of the female gender, which supposedly this is a consequence of not having any right that support them in each act;Which this character breaks another stereotype of the time regardless of their behaviors.

The honor emphasizes that a Greek woman is not lacking warrior capacity. The author makes known that Medea is the faithful representation of honor because he seeks to specify his revenge for being betrayed by Jason to defend and protect his profile. "Unfortunate, you were in effect of rock or iron, you will kill the seed of the children you engenders" to kill yourself. ". The intention it has is to cause a great dishonor in Jason after betraying with a social imbalance.

Likewise, the honor leads to the Greek woman to the search for fair treatment because in their migrations to another nation they were excluded and restricted. But the restriction and exclusion of migrants is not an obstacle to the protagonist. The little time you receive to leave the place is enough for your next step;That these children with his mother Creon, the sovereign of this region, is about to expel them from the Corinthian earth ”.

On the other hand, the submissive woman formulates an outraged honor that the figurative character seeks female dignity. Medea being a symbolic character breaks with the parameters of being a submissive woman, being different and brave supports him to highlight the honor and his values he deserves;"To a large extent for many I am different from mortals". Claims a world where equity exists.

All the opposition acts that Medea performs is related to the topic the "end justifies the media", just to gain a greater status, for this reason he performs inhuman or wild acts.

In conclusion, the symbolic character breaks with the stereotypes of the Greek woman, highlighting the great influence of the society that occurs in each situation for the decision making of Medea. Euripides presents a female character of contradictory thought that brings with it a series of questions to the crowd, since by then the role that woman fulfilled both in marital life and the value they possessed was extremely far away from Medea’s. On the other hand, all the characters are witnesses of the scenario through which Medea passes, and the difference that is evidenced so much, pain and sufferings are authors of the opposition with greatness to parallel life. Being a filicide character, an act that marks more in Jason and in history, highlights his great fury for destroy. This realizes that having a life parallel to society does not attribute any corresponding value, this evidence for the other female characters of the work.