Trojan Women - Quotes on Women
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- Trojan Women - Euripides Quotes on Women
- Displaying Female Strengths
- Andromache was the perfect 'wife': "I suppressed my longing and stayed in the house" This fits with 5th century Athenian practice.
- Andromache: "Kept a quiet tongue in my husband's presence and let no clouds pass over my face." - this is what an ideal wife was expected to do, keep quiet and not complain.
- Hecabe betrays her city and people to try to ingratiate herself with menelaus, referring to her people as 'Barbarians' and playing the stereotype of Easterners as morally debauched and living a 'life of luxury'.
- Helen shows the negative side of women - she is manipulative and evades all responsibility, playing on her beauty and 'female' cunning.
- Women In Society
- "A single night thaws a woman's distaste for a man's bed
- This shows that men think women are broken in like horses and cannot resist a man who sleeps with them.
- "A single night thaws a woman's distaste for a man's bed
- The Trojan Women represent tragedy of powerlessness in society and the suffering in the nameless endure to glorify their 'masters'
- Displaying Female Strengths
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