Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Tragedy
Themes/Ideas
- Medea
- Women, femininity & the
position of women
- Masculine vs feminine qualities
- Medea can speak in
rhetorics, and only men
should be able to do that
- Revenge
- Greatness & pride
- Betrayal
- Exile
- The "Other"
- Love
- Free will vs. fate
- Cleverness
- Manipulation
- Right vs
Wrong
- Accusations and oath breaking
- Connected to Themis
- Behaviour regulated by sanctions
- Verbal contracts
- The family breakdown
- The household safe
- Family honour
- Heritage
- Murdering own family
members is horrific
- Ajax
- Pride and conceit
- Intelligence more
important than
brute force
- Anger and hatred
- Effects of war
- Limits of loyalty
- Personal honour
vs group honour
- Models of
masculinity
- Relation to Dionysos
- Role of Tecmessa
- Ajax's sanity
- Friends vs
enemies
- Trojan Women
- Effects of war
(women, children,
innocents)
- Importance of
male bloodline
- Fatal heritage
- Burial rites
- Role of women
- Role of gods
- Man responsible for
his own actions
- Honour and dignity
- The horrors of war
- Dread
- Hope
- Revenge
- Agamemnon
- Naturalistic symbolism
- Womanliness &
manliness
- Male vs female
- Character foiling
and doubling
- Fire & sunrise
(divine and mortal)
- Women as
"promiscuous"
- Premature death
- Ambition and daring
- Divine vs human
justice
- Justice vs Revenge
- Beast
symbolism
- Corruption &
purity
(healing)
- Light v. Dark
- Freedom vs Slavery
- Man must suffer to be wise
- Free will vs
Fate/Necessity