“As a director, explain how you would stage the first Choral ode and Creon’s first address to the Chorus in order to create your preferred effects.” In these two sections, as a director, I would like to achieve an ongoing feeling of confusion at the state Creon is in, and reflect how power hungry he is becoming. However, I also want to convey as much detail and understanding of the plot through the actions of the Chorus through the first choral ode. The before time of the choral ode and first address is when Antigone is trying to convince Ismene to help her bury their brother Polyneices, but Ismene refuses and instead Antigone accepts she will have to do it alone. Consequently the audience would already have been shaken up by Antigone’s plan; I would like to continue to mix up the audiences feeling by adding multiple depths to each character as we go along. This is so that the audience switch between liking and hating a character.
Medea How can you tell whether someone is truly insane or not? In the Greek tragedy Medea by Euripides, barbarian princess Medea marries Lolcus prince Jason. Jason leaves Medea to marry a Rich princess to help support Medea and their two children. Throughout the story Medea tires to get revenge on Jason for leaving her. Medea is hurting other people by trying to get revenge on Jason.
2) He tells Calphurnia to stand before Antony in the race so that he could touch her and remove her sterility (infertility). 3) A soothsayer is a fortune-teller. He warns Caesar of the 15th of March. 4) Brutus has been affected with internal debate and conflict, which has accordingly affected his behavior. 5) Yes: “I fear that Caesar has been chosen as king.” 6) He loves his honor more
Back in the 1600s Shakespeare wrote plays that would specifically please the Monarch, as there was more pressure to gain acceptance; his comical plays would restore Social Class in the form of marriage. Abigail's Party fails to follow this structure that is used even in modern plays and films, which is why I refer to it as a Social Tragedy, where the social class was broken. Like in Shakespeare's Tragedy 'Romeo and Juliet' the two lovers are married, then torn apart by death as a consequence of a conflicting social class, this can be loosely mirrored in Abigail's Party. A typical example within the play of an unhappy marriage would involve Beverly and Lawrence. Though they are married, which implies a certain amount of love and a strong relationship, they seem to fail at every part of the stereotypical marriage.
In life fate is determined by personal choice and High power. In the odyssey by Homer Odysseus and Telemachus make choices that determine their life. Poseidon has bitterness toward Odysseus. “Yet all the gods have pitied lord Odysseus all but Poseidon raging cold and rough against the brave new king” (29). In Greek culture if a man wants to marry a woman You became a suitor for that woman and if anything goes wrong You must be willing to clash for the woman even if A the man is still not in love with her.
Yet we see media encouraging the notion that you must be beautiful not smart to find a significant other. Equally, we see media encouraging that to be attractive to females you must have be masculine, strong, and handsome. Feminism currently works to defeat these standards put upon males and females by society. A beautiful reference Quindlen made to the shifting feminist agenda is that of expectations. As females, we are now able to legally do everything a male can do, yet now we are expected to do it even better.
Today’s society is overly concerned with the way men and women look. There is a near impossible standard set for the way both genders are meant to look, and there are a lot of problems caused over them. Men are “supposed to” have defined abdominal muscles, bulging biceps, a rugged and strong looking jaw line, and always be taller than their female counterparts. In the same way, women are expected to have long, soft, flowy hair, a perfect hourglass figure, long and lean legs, flawless skin and exquisite make-up. Not only are these standards physically impossible for some men and women to achieve, they are completely unfair.
He would have broad shoulders and a chiseled jaw line, with short grey hair, dark brown eyes, and light olive skin (to make him look like he is Greek). If I were casting Creon he would be tall (6’2) so, when standing next to other actors on stage they have to physically crane their necks to look up at him. I wouldn’t have Creon masked as I think his facial expressions are vital to provide a convincing character, even though when this was originally performed he would be masked. Haemon would also have brown eyes and olive skin so it is believable for the audience that they are related. Haemon would be shorter (5’11), so he has to look up at his father as well, with a mop of dark curls on his head.
Medea Analysis In Euripides’ play Medea, there is love, hate, betrayal, revenge and so much more that takes place. Euripides has his readers questioning everything in his play from the literal characters actions to themes of the play to the Greek ideals that he is challenging. For example, he makes the reader question between justification and revenge. He makes you question if Jason could have been a hero on his own. Euripides questions the Greek ideal woman and her characteristics.
Euripides has given great importance to status, and in the introduction to the action the change in status of both Medea and Jason are clearly explained: Medea first lost her status of daughter and citizen of Colchis when she married Jason and left her homeland for Corinth. Before the play begins, she gains the status of a mother, but during the play there is a conflict between this and her overwhelming desire for revenge