Macbeth and Medea

[imaginelifeless]

is anyone doing Macbeth and Medea for their drama texts? if so, can you find much similarities/differences between those 2? apart from the major themes of power

[pretty_ah_boi]

Gender issues? Significance of the women in the texts? For medea, you can talk about how medea is portrayed as a woman in ancient freakish greekish time, and what you can infer about women of that time from medea. Also, the chorus is entirely comprised of corinth women. How can you use that information and the speeches of the chorus to compare to that of medea? This requires alot of knowledge of ancient greek culture though.

In macbeth, you can talk about the role of lady m at the start of the play, how she influenced macbeth to evil. Also can talk about the role reversal between macbeth and lady m at the end of the play.

[Bee =3]

mmhh
is there macbeth in the list of texts this year?
at our school, they normally do macbeth and medea por spanish (we're in argentina)
but this year, we've had to switch to hamlet because it was taken away from the list...

as for your question..

i dunno if it applies for macbeth as well, but one of the things we've looked at between medea and hamlet is the relationship between the macro and microcosmos.
for e.g. how the chaos or the initial rupture of the natural order is reflected in the main character's microcosmos and the macrocosmos (for e.g. denmark in hamlet, corinth in medea)
this could be also related to how the greeks (and shakespeare) viewed the universe (the cosmic view) .. how the social chaos is reflected in the nature, etc

sorry for my lackluster suggestion.. but hope that helped!

cheers, B