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A Friendly Enemy
Title: A Friendly Enemy
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 523 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
A Friendly Enemy
A Friendly Enemy
"Death is my wish for myself, my enemies, my children" (Euripedes translated by Robinson Jeffers, Medea 11). Medea is hungry for death. She wants to taste it on her lips and wishes others to do the same. The value which Medea gives death is to use it as a weapon against her enemies. On the other hand, the women and the nurse fear death. Death,to the women and to the nurse is …showed first 75 words of 523 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 523 total…served. The feelings towards death among the women and Medea personified death. Death was an enemy to the women, yet a "friend" to Medea. Death was valued as a weapon of revenge by Medea and viewed as a weapon of destruction to the women. Life is more precious to the women but Medea does not think of life as precious. She is being selfish only thinking about her friend death to reach her goal; revenge.
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