Gender and characterization in Euripides’ "Medea"
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Euripides, Medea, characterization, genderAbstract
This paper looks into the characterization of the figure of Medea in Euripides’ homonymous play. At first, I consider how her speeches conform to speech patterns usually identified as feminine in tragedy and how she uses deceptive expressions of submission to dupe her opponents. Secondly, I investigate to what extent her linguistic characterization also contains traces of a heroism more typically masculine, offering a glimpse of the fears and anxieties underlying feminine stereotypes of tragedy.
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