The Hovering Blade:Choice,Accommodation,and Protest In Medea

The Athenian democracy is a discourse civilization which grounded by logos.Logos is rooted in and promoted by the public life in the Greek polis,it established a series of binary opposition,such as male and female,citizen and slave,civilization and barbarism,to define the nature and made the things in place.Such on-purposed built binary opposition and its inner hierarchical order made the facts that civilization of natural differences and justification of hegemonic oppression unseen.In Medea,Euripides established a tragedy image which is full of ambiguity by the dramatic acts which can be mainly staged as choice,accommodation,and protest.The identity of female,barbarian,and witch made her stand nowhere but a marginalized position,while Euripides filled this heroin with thymos,intelligence,composure,and decent discourse.Medea's naturality and ambiguity,in fact,disorganized the binary opposition witch set up by the Greek discourse civilization and reason culture.In the end,Euripides striped all the shelters,such as the homeland and family,from Medea and put her into a extremely marginalized situation from where she could observe and reflect on the conceit of Greek logos,the abuse of rhetoric and the decay of Athenian democratic system in a perspective of the absolute other.