Comparing Female Characters in Euripides Medea and Sophocles Oedipus

Looking at Female Characters in Euripides' Medea and Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Antigone   â â In the hours of the antiquated Greeks, ladies had a simple job. They were relied upon to do assume the acknowledged job of a woman.â In many cases, a lady's job is confined to bearing youthful, bringing up youngsters, and housework. In Sophocles' Oedipusâ the King, Antigone, and Medea, the predominant female characters affected upon men with power and political power.â It is an certain destiny that one of these characters will fall, and that the Gods have command over everybody's fate.â Each predominant female character depicts her self discipline and pledge to their beliefs.â This is the thing that prompts the inescapable catastrophe.   â â â â In Oedipus the King, Jocasta, is Oedipus' significant other and the sister of Creon. She turned into a piece of bound Theban line when she wedded Laius, the King of Thebes.â thus, the marriage had united two parts of the group of Cadmus and appeared to ensure political strength.â She became baffled since she couldn't deliver a beneficiary to the throne.â Seeking a arrangement, Lauis went to the prophet at Delphi and asked how the proble may be overcome.â Instead, the prophet declared that the child destined to Jocasta would be his murderer.â Upon hearing the prescience, Lauis dismissed all women.â This rankled Jocasta and she had gotten Lauis flushed, and laid down with him.â This demonstrates that Jocasta won't be beaten, even by her husband.â When Jocasta had brought forth an infant kid (Oedipus), Lauis had it sent away by an errand person to bite the dust of presentation high in the mountains.â A shepherd found the kid ... ...horde of docile ladies. Works Cited and Consulted Euripides.â Medea.â The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces.â Ed. Sarah Lawall.â New York and London:â W. W. Norton and Company, 1999.â McDermott, E A (1989) Euripides' Medea: The Incarnation of Disorder. Pennsylvania State University:USA Woodard,â Thomas.â Sophocles: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Sophocles. Antigone. Investigating Literature: Writing and pondering Fiction, Verse, Drama, and the Essay. Ed. Joseph Terry. New York: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc, 2001. Sophocles.â Oedipus Rex.â An Introduction to Literature, eleventh ed.Eds. Woody Barnet, et al.â New York: Longman, 1997. Watling, E. F.. Presentation. In Sophocles: The Theban Plays, interpreted by E. F. Watling. New York: Penguin Books, 1974.