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Women, Patriarchy, and Feminine Suffering: A Gendered Analysis of Euripides’ “The Trojan Women”: A 6 page (5 pp. + 1 pg. Endnotes) paper which examines what appears to be women’s senseless suffering in times of war and peace and how this suffering is represented in Euripides’ tragedy. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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roles of wife, mother, or concubine. Social dramatist Euripides considered womens lowly status in his tragedy, The Trojan Women, in which there is little in the way of plot,
but that was precisely the point. Women had no place in the ancient world, and therefore a play solely involving their suffering would have to be downplayed if it
was to be an accurate representation of negligible society status. The Trojan Women is primarily a reactive play that considers the devastation of female survivors immediately after the fall
of Troy. It features women and yet they remain mere passive supporting characters in the drama, reflecting their place in society. Euripides recognized that in the eerie quite
after combat, "Womens voices resound in the stillness."1 Male actions - their propensity for war, their deaths, and the aftermath of military defeat - left women picking up the
pieces of a civilization that was in ruin. While they are coping with the emotional losses of their husbands and sons,
these women are also subjected to added humiliation of being sold into slavery by the Greek victors. While the men dreamed of heroism in combat as they fought for
noble causes and died for noble causes, with visions of lavish funeral rites dancing in their heads; womens wartime experiences consisted mostly of "rape, deracination, and concubinage."2 As The
Trojan Women dramatized, a womans identity - whether she was a queen or commoner - was completely defined by her husbands role. After death and defeat, these women were
displaced persons because they were no longer Trojan wives and had yet to become Greek concubines.3 In ancient societies, male and female roles were completely gender oriented. Yet,
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