Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Medea and Lysistrata Essay -- World Literature Gender Inequalities Ess
Medea and LysistrataMedea and Lysistrata are two Greek literatures that depict the power which women are driven to achieve in an aim to defy gender dissimilitude. In The Medea, Medea is battling against her husband Jason whom she hates. On the other hand, in Aristophanes Lysistrata, the protagonist Lysistrata plotted to convince and organize the female gender to protest against the stubbornness of men. In terms of delineate the purpose of these two literatures, it is apparent that Euripedes and Aristophanes created characters that demonstrate resistance against the domination of men in the society.Despite the contrast in the characters of Euripedes Medea and Aristophanes Lysistrata, the two playwrights depicted how gender inequality can start a fire. As with Medea and Jason, the battle between the two lead to formers madness, leading to the death of the enemies she considered, and, unfortunately, leading as well to the death of her confess children. Medea felt betrayed and le ft behind by her husband Jason, as well as continuously aggravated by Creon despite the fact that i...
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