Chorus In Medea - 1892 Words

Who is your character and what is your status? My character in the Euripides play Medea is the chorus. This means I speak along with 3 others as a part of the chorus. This is a feature of Greek theatre and is used in all forms of it. The chorus in Greek theatre is used to represent the feelings of the society that surrounds the character in the play and offers an opinion that may relate to the thoughts of the audience. Traditionally in Greek theatre there are between 5 and 50 members of the chorus (all male). The chorus in Greek theatre also traditionally did songs and dances in unison as they represented on body of people. How will you make clear the time and period of the play? We made the time and period of which the play is set in†¦show more content†¦The classical masks with their extremely exaggerated features did this effectively and meant that the emotion of the character was easily understood from a distance. What is the situation in the scene? And How might the audience and/or the chorus respond to the order of events or the action in the scene? In the scene we have chosen, the situation is that Medea has just sent her sons to Kreusa (the woman Medea’s Husband is marrying) daughter of Kreon (the King of Corinth) with a cape (that is poisoned) disguised as a wedding gift as a way to ask that the sons may not be exiled from corinth as what Medea has done is not of their doing and they should not be punished for Medea s actions. The part we begin with is with the chorus explaining that the fact that Medea has sent her sons to Kreusa with this gift shows that she has quashed any hope the people had that she might not go through with murdering her sons. Then we move on to hear from the Attendant that the gift was received in grace by Kreusa and that Medea s sons have been freed from exile. Medea although she expected this news is not happy with the fact that it went as planned and fe els sick within herself that she should do such a thing. Then Medea sends the Attendant away and as the nurse comes out, before she has a chance to speak, Medea sends the nurse into the house to bathe her boys. Medea then does a gruelling monologue fighting with herself on whether or not she should go throughShow MoreRelatedThe Role of Chorus in Euripides Medea638 Words   |  3 Pages The Role of Chorus in Medea nbsp; In section 18 of the Poetics Aristotle criticizes Euripides for not allowing the chorus to be one of the actors and to be a part of the whole and to share in the dramatic action, . . . as in Sophocles. Aristotle may be thinking of the embolima of Euripides later plays (satirized also by Aristophanes), but he is certainly wrong about the Medea. 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