reason vs. passion

Reason vs. Passion In his plays The Bacchae and Medea, Greek playwright Euripides expresses his views quite clearly on the relationship between reason and passion in human life. Euripides believes that there is a constant struggle between the two elements, and people must be able to find the proper balance in order to exist peacefully, something his characters were unable to do. He expresses, via his characters, his belief that passion dominates this struggle in …

…hunting a lion cub. These are all examples from Euripides’ plays that show his belief in the relationship between passion and reason. Euripides believed that when passion is overly present, proper reason is absent. The two cannot peacefully coexist, as one always attempts to dominate the other. Euripides expressed this in his plays, and each of his main characters fell victim to the struggle between passion and reason, with passion ending victorious in each case.