Did Medea Suffer The Greatest Injustice?
Category: Business Words: 1091 | Pages: 5 Views: 237 Popularity Rank: 3401 Report this Essay JOIN OR LOGIN TO VIEW THE ENTIRE ESSAY. IT’S FREE! “Jason may not excite the sympathy of the audience as a character but it is he, rather than Medea, who suffers the greatest injustice.” Discuss In the majority of other circumstances, we would in general feel more sympathetic towards the person who has been treated the more unjustly. It undoubtedly seems right that the person who has suffered the most wrong should in fact be the one to acquire the most sympathy. But in the case of Euripides’ famous Greek tragedy Medea this rule of thumb is not at all apparent. In this extant play, we notice a contradiction to the above rule. No longer are we supporting the character that obviously has suffered the greater pain, but the character who is the main cause of that pain. Can justice, a term simply implying ‘righteousness’, be measured? How can it truly be decided that one character or person has suffe
