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Medea- Plot Structure

PLOT STRUCTURE OF CONVENTIONAL GREEK TRAGEDY

1) Prologue

2) Parode

i)Strophê (Turn)

ii)Antistrophê (Counter-Turn)

iii)Epode (After-Song)

3)Episode

4)Stasimon.

5)Exode

PLOT STRUCTURE OF MEDEA

1) Prologue

Nurse

How I wish the Argo's sails had never swept through

the dark blue Clashing Rocks into the land of the Colchians;

I wish the pine trees had never fallen

in the groves of Pelion, cut down to put oars in the hands

of the heroes who went after the golden fleece

for Pelias. Then my mistress Medea would not

have sailed to the fortress of Iolcus' land,

her heart battered by love for Jason.

2) Parode

Chorus

I heard the sound of laments, full of despair;

she cries out shrill sad sounds of mourning

at the betrayer of her marriage-bed, her evil husband.

For the injustice she suffers, she invokes

Themis keeper of oaths, daughter of Zeus,

who brought her

into Greece from a faraway land

over the sea by night

through Pontus' gate, hard to pass.

3) Episodes

Chorus

Now I have no more hopes for the children's life —

no more. They go now to murder.

The bride will receive the gifts, the poor woman will take

the doom of the golden diadem;

onto her golden hair she will put Death's

adornment, taking it in her own hands.

(4th stasimon)

4) Exode

Chorus

Of many things Zeus in Olympus is keeper,

many are the things the gods bring about against all reason,

and what is looked for does not happen after all,

yet a god finds a way for the unexpected.

That is how this story has ended.

SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN PLOT STRUCTURE

  • Not all episodes have a 3 section structure including a strophê, antistrophê and epode
  • 5 episodes

REFERENCES

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/Classes/US210/Greek-play.html

  • http://www.theatre.utah.edu/greektheatre/media/MEDEA%20STUDY%20GUIDE%20.pdf
  • http://teaching.shc.ed.ac.uk/classics/greek1B/documents/Gk1BMedeaAnalysis.pdf
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