Mapa mental
Tragedy Themes/Ideas
Mind map: tragedy themes and ideas
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Tragedy Themes/Ideas
Medea
- Women, femininity & the position of women
- Masculine vs feminine qualities
- Medea can speak in rhetorics, and only men should be able to do that
- Masculine vs feminine qualities
- Revenge
- Greatness & pride
- Betrayal
- Exile
- The "Other"
- Love
- Free will vs. fate
- Cleverness
- Manipulation
- Right vs Wrong
- Accusations and oath breaking
- Connected to Themis
- Behaviour regulated by sanctions
- Verbal contracts
- Connected to Themis
- The family breakdown
- The household safe
- Family honour
- Heritage
- Murdering own family members is horrific
- Women, femininity & the position of women
Ajax
- Pride and conceit
- Intelligence more important than brute force
- Anger and hatred
- Effects of war
- Limits of loyalty
- Personal honour vs group honour
- Models of masculinity
- Relation to Dionysos
- Role of Tecmessa
- Ajax's sanity
- Friends vs enemies
Trojan Women
- Effects of war (women, children, innocents)
- Importance of male bloodline
- Fatal heritage
- Burial rites
- Role of women
- Role of gods
- Man responsible for his own actions
- Honour and dignity
- The horrors of war
- Dread
- Hope
- Revenge
Agamemnon
- Naturalistic symbolism
- Womanliness & manliness
- Male vs female
- Character foiling and doubling
- Fire & sunrise (divine and mortal)
- Women as "promiscuous"
- Premature death
- Ambition and daring
- Divine vs human justice
- Justice vs Revenge
- Beast symbolism
- Corruption & purity (healing)
- Light v. Dark
- Freedom vs Slavery
- Man must suffer to be wise
- Free will vs Fate/Necessity
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- Some themes that could be involved in four Greek tragedies
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