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In five pages this paper examines how women refused the feminine roles assigned to them by their respective societies and cultures in a comparative analysis of the female protagonists in these plays. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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society from lawmaking, warfare, and the categorization of values to the determination of rules governing individual households and their occupants. To perpetuate this male-dominated power structure, men sought to
sire sons and had little use for daughters. Why would they? Females were responsible for the production of the human species but sadly not much else outside of
the domestic sphere. Women in Western societies were very much as Eve was described in the New Testament: appendages of their male counterparts with no unique identities exclusively their
own. However, as two classic works of literature reveal, not all women accepted their gendered fates with passive acceptance. In Euripides tragic play Medea, the title character took
matters violently into her own hands after her husband Jason betrayed her to marry King Kreons daughter, leaving her as a woman alone with young sons to care for.
In Henrik Ibsens social drama A Dolls House, circumstances forced wife and mother to rethink their relationship dynamic and reevaluate the patriarchal views of womanhood that had always defined her
self-image. As far as Medea was concerned, she had languished under male domination for her entire life, but had little choices available to her on the basis of her sex.
To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced to escape to Corinth after committing murder to benefit her husband Jason. She
would stop at nothing to further Jasons agenda since the ancient Greek culture relegated her to be nothing more than the powerful woman standing by (and behind) her man.
Medea was more than a woman scorned. Jason robbed of what is most valued because in ancient Greece community and bloodlines are of the highest significance. With
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