Medea REVISION OVERVIEW.

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Medea REVISION OVERVIEW

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Key Scenes You must know the key moments of the play thoroughly but always avoid summarising these scenes in an exam answer. Rather, discuss what these key scenes tell us about the characters and the themes. Use them to analyse the play, not to describe it.

What you need to know Key Characters You must be able to discuss the following characters in detail and what they add to the play, what tell us about the central themes, what their role is etc. Always back up your points with reference to the play. - Medea - Chorus - Jason - Aegeus -Creon - Nurse

Exploitation of children Revenge What you need to know Themes The role of women Exploitation of children Revenge

Medea as a typical Hero: Heroes in Greek society were renowned as violent beings and since they lived by the code: “Help your friends and harm your enemies.” As Medea is depicted as a hero it is expected that revenge will be deadly. Epic poems don’t question Achilles right to bring destruction to the Greek army or Odysseus’s slaughter of an entire generation of the Ithacan aristocracy. Medea is a combination of the violence of Achilles and the cold craft of Odyssey. Medea is terrible to her enemies and hard to defeat (echoing Socratic value). Heroic inflexibility: “she’s inflexible in her rage”. Inflexible in purpose: “I shall kill” and “the deed must be done”. Like Clytemnestra once she has made up her mind she’ll do it.

Medea as a typical Hero: Her extremeness is comparable to heroes: “And kill them both, even if I am to die for it.” She is motivated by fear of her enemies laughing at her. To her it is the greatest torment: “You must not invite laughter from Jason and his new allies.” Heroic vocabulary: “I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory (heroic ethos) belongs.” Definite embodiment of the heroic ethos, especially when she talks about glory because that was the most central concern to Greek heroes. She is of heroic temperament and daring and is moved by her wrath (anger- “the fiercest anger of all the most incurable is that which rages in place of dearest love”-p32), full of passionate intensity. She resists moderation and reason: “I can endure guilt however horrible, the laughter of my enemies I will not endure.”