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Medea, a Friendly Enemy
Title: Medea, a Friendly Enemy
Category: Literature / Mythology
Details: Words: 520 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Medea, 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 something that should …showed first 75 words of 520 total…
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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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