Medea

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This paper illustrates the characteristics inherent to the protagonist in plays of Euripides: Medea that was conceived in 431 B.C., as they collaborate to Aristotle's concept of tragedy and tragic protagonists. It describes plight of an unhappy wife, which creates the pity of reader, as her husband finds another wife and her daughters are murdered.

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"In order to effectively understand the topic of this paper, it is imperative that we first take a look at the character who is supposed to analyzed in the light of her fulfilling the criterion of that of a tragic heroine; Medea: the Wife of Jason, who has deserted her at the beginning of the play for the daughter of King Creon, subsequently creating a scenario that is prevalently tense and regretful, particularly in aspect of the effect that his departure to another wife has had on Medea. The occurrence of Medea's link to Jason as his wife comes about as the Argonauts, a group of Greek set under to command of Jason in order to locate the legendary Golden Fleece; a mythical fleece."

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