As an actor preparing for the role of Electra, what aspects of her character would you emphasise in creating the final performance? In your answer you should refer to three key scenes in which the character appears. Electra is an ancient Greek play by Sophocles. The play opens with Orestes, Electra’s brother, deciding to pretend he is dead in order to take revenge for his father, Agamemnon’s, death. Electra fights with her mother, Clytemnestra, and her mother’s lover, Aegisthus, because she feels betrayed by them as they killed her father.
In the play, Euripides has described Medea as a woman who “wild with love”. Everyone can see easily that with Medea, the love with Jason is the most important to her as she could kill her own brother, betrayed her father and her country to help Jason get the Golden Fleece. “I willingly deceived my father; left my home; …” “You had already murdered your brother at his own hearth…” Because of Jason, Medea - from a princess – had to drift to another place which is not belonging to her. Her family, her friends will never forgive for that, Medea doesn’t even have the way to turn back to her home anymore. “My friends at home now hate me…” Medea even earned more enemies when helping Jason.
In the book, after Medea talks about what she will do to the princess she tells the chorus “ I will kill the children—my children. No one on this earth can save them” (Euripides 35-36). When she says “no one on this earth can save them,” she lies., because she can obviously save them. She acts as if she has no other choice but to kill her children. Her mind is so set on revenge, which is clouding her judgment.
In order to protect the ones she cares about and fool Griffin Scope, she chooses to convince everybody that she no longer exists. David Beck’s safety is Elizabeth’s number one priority. According to her, his survival comes first (226). At the beginning of the story, Elizabeth is accused of murdering infamous Griffin Scope’s son, Brandon. Angry and hungry for revenge, he hires a couple of men to kill her and her husband.
English 1A Medea Journal Entry Euripidies’ Medea is a tragic Greek play in which the main character Medea takes horrible revenge on her husband for leaving her to marry a princess. I really liked how modern a play Medea must have been for its time. Most of Greek literature and culture is centered on masculinity but in Medea we see a woman who although crazy stands up for herself in a male dominated world. As the play progresses her blind rage transforms Medea from a helpless victim, to crazed child killer. Medea is introduced as a miserable ranting wreck.
She will be the man here” (519). This quote explains Kreon’s irritation on Antigone. The very moment Antigone buries her be loving brother’s body Kreon wants to take action with killing her because she disobeyed his law also Antigone’s sister, Ismene, because Kreon believes she was part of it too. Kreon believes if he does not kill Antigone he will no longer be one of the best rulers that people will look up too. This quote is important because it explains how Kreon begins to commit hubris.
She asks’ her sister Ismene to help her give him the burial he deserves. Creon the king of Thebes made sure that if anyone was to bury Polynieces was going to be stoned to death. He felt as if he was a “traitor” to Creon who killed his own brother in a civil war. Antigone was caught in the act of burring Polynieces by the sentry, now she is sentenced to be buried and killed. Antigone and Rosa Parks have a different encounter with the law and how they are punished for what they have done.
Ben Waller Mrs. Callaham Honors English II November 15, 2013 Antigone The tragic hero in the play Antigone is the main character Antigone. She stands up for what she believes in and faces the punishment that she doesn't deserve. Creon wants Antigone and her sister to die because he is afraid they are going to steal the thrown from him, but in the end everything turns to the worst. Antigone dies with a clean conscience after burying her brother even though she knew she would die. Antigone was born into the royal family.
You would think her own father would be understanding of her wishes, but he commanded her to marry Paris or else he would disown her. Furious and devastated, Juliet took a potion that made her appear dead; this was the only way she could be with Romeo. With Romeo being exiled, he heard news of his wife's death and bought poison to kill
Now, with Kreon hearing the proof of what Antigone has done, he's angered more than ever. He wants to make her suffer, as if he's taking a chance he's always wanted. Taking his anger out on Antigone for the pain her father Oedipus has caused him in the past; Eteocles and Polyneices being dead he thought he had nothing to worry about. Ismene had known of the crime, in this case Kreon takes the opportunity to punish her as well. Towards the society, seeing women being faced with death and torture could turn them against Kreon, also for knowing Antigone was only doing so to protect her own