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A 3 page essay that discusses the characterization of Iphigenia in Euripides' plays Iphigenia at Aulis and Iphigenia at Tauris. In these plays, Euripides shows Iphigenia to be a woman of extraordinary wisdom, discernment and courage. While highlighting these qualities, Euripides also humanizes his characterization of Iphigenia by showing that she also experiences rage against the unfairness of her fate. Examination of how her character develops over the course of these two plays points toward Euripides' most fundamental concepts in regards to Greek religion and adherence to duty to the state. No additional sources cited.
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the course of his two plays featuring this characters fate--Iphigenia at Aulis and Iphigenia at Tauris--Euripides shows Iphigenia to be a woman of extraordinary wisdom, discernment and courage. While highlighting
these qualities, Euripides also humanizes his characterization of Iphigenia by showing that she also experiences rage against the unfairness of her fate. Examination of how her character develops over the
course of these two plays points toward Euripides most fundamental concepts in regards to Greek religion and adherence to duty to the state. Iphigenia makes her first appearance on
stage when she joyfully greets her father Agamemnon on her arrival at Aulis. As this suggests, Euripides immediately establishes that there is a close bond between Agamemnon and his oldest
child. Iphigenias mother, Clytaemnestra comments, "...for all the children I have born, thou hast every loved thy father best" (Iphigenia at Aulis). When Iphigenia learns that her father has lured
her to Aulis on false pretenses (a presume marriage to Achilles) and that his true intention is to sacrifice her to the goddess Artemis so that his fleet can receive
fair winds in their war against Troy, Iphigenia is, quite naturally, badly shaken and pleads for her life. In a long monologue, she pleads, cries, and calls on memories to
touch his heart. Various plot complications ensue and the political and social forces that are forcing her father to this awful decision become clear to Iphigenia. When she sees that
all of the men have revolted and that chaos will ensure unless the goddess will is carried out, Iphigenia gives another monologue that shows that she sees the sacrifice in
terms of patriotic duty. She tells her mother, "I am resolved to die: and this I fain would do with honor, dismissing from me what is mean" (Iphigenia at Aulis).
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