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One of the main themes in Euripides's plays is woman in suffering. It is in his treatment of abused and wronged women that Euripides shows his keenest insights. In the Alcestis, Hippolytus, The Medea, The Trojan Women, his understanding of women and their situations is admirable. He has sympathy for all the victims of society, including womankind. In this point Euripides presents his uniqueness among all the Greek writers. His last and posthumous play Iphigenia in Aulis also shows his sympathy for women as the victim sufferers. The chorus are the women of Chalcis in Euboea who have crossed over to Aulis. The women surprised at the news of war and came to see the Greek ships for Troy and the heroes in the quest of Helen. They are young wives and common people who have the universal viewpoints and desires with which Euripides agrees. The songs they sing are hymns to happy home and modest passion, and prayers for joyful return. It is Clytemnestra who is the most impressive person in this play, not Iphigenia nor Agamemnon. Her anger, pain, and desperation are vividly expressed and have an appeal to the audience. She is a person who has dauntlessness and dignity. She is not a weak woman. But that she can not defend her most precious daughter proves the vulnerable status of the Greek woman. The defeat of Clytemnestra who is a queen and proud woman is more shocking than the death of Iphigenia who seems obedient and docile. Iphigenia is a symbol of an innocent victim. The why she is sacrificed is that the Greek troops want to leave for Troy at any cost. Every society has made its victims from the weak. The demand on a man to murder his brothers and children and kin with the name of love of his country, love of his people, and civilization is the act of uncivilization. Through the sacrifice of Iphigenia Euripides makes us to remind of the suffering of the innocent victims in all ages

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I. 서론 
 II. 고통받는 자로서의 여성
  1. 코러스(Chorus of Women of Chalcis in Euboe)
  2. 클라이템네스트라(Clytemnestra)
  3. 이피지니아(Iphigenia)
 III. 결론 
 Works Cited 
 Abstract

저자

• 김라옥 [ Kim, Ra-Ok | 우석대 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [Studies on English Language & Literature]

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• pISSN

  1226-8682

• 수록기간

  1972~2020

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820