Gender in Medea

Discuss the ways one or more texts explore the politics of gender The dramatic text Medea allows an exploration into the politics of gender within patriarchal Ancient Greek society. Medea who is the protagonist of the dramatic play, challenges and confronts the existing power relationship, gender constructions and patriarchal ideologies within ancient Greek society. In doing so she is able to steadily empower herself and shift gender constructions through using traditional patriarchal construction of her …

…In conclusion it can be said that the text Medea does indeed allow exploration into the politics of gender within Ancient Greek patriarchal society. Medea is able to challenge the existing patriarchal system within Ancient Greece, as well as gender constructions. As a direct result she is able to empower herself from a position of being powerless by the patriarchal definition of femininity to a position of dominant power by the end of the play.