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A Comparison of a Tragic Hero from Euripides’s Medea and Aeschylus’s Agamemnon

A Comparison of a Tragic Hero from Euripides’s Medea and Aeschylus’s Agamemnon
Tragic heroes from Greek tragedies almost always share similar characteristics.
Medea from Euripides’s play Medea and Clytemnestra from Aeschylus’s play
Agamemnon display and share traits common to a tragic hero. They both have a
flaw, hold a high rank or have an extraordinary ability, seek vengeance, and cause their
own downfall anothers suffering. All of these traits are displayed clearly in these
characters and are shown in the textual support.
Both Medea and Clytemnestra had detrimental flaws. Medea was a very
passionate women with a tendency to become easily angered. Her anger from being
wronged by Jason is shown when she wishes “...Jason and his bride/Ground to pieces in
their shattered palace/For the wrong they have declared to do...”(Euripides 6).
Clytemnestras flaw was that she could not see past her own grief, anger, and how her
husband had killed their daughter....

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