에우리피데스의 여성인물 연구: 『메데이아』(Μηδεια), 『헤카베』 (Ἑκαβη), 『박카이』(Βακχαι)에 나타난 이중성을 중심으로
A Study on Euripides’ Female Characters: The Feature of Ambiguity in Medea, Hecuba, and Bacchae
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This paper tries to analyze the feature of ambiguity of Euripides’ female characters through Medea, Hecuba, and Bacchae, with the female ambiguity fluctuating between witch and heroine. The heroic females are, featured as god’s thyrsus, challenging the corruption of anomos(lawless, godless) society, a society that is, with a patriarchal bias, putting women on the other side of it, and is so lawless as to annihilate philia, and so obsessed with ill-guided reason as to ignore divine advice. On the other hand, as deadly witches, their irrational thymos is overlapped with madness and lethal demolition. Remarkably enough, Euripides’ ambiguous females are featured by the Dionysiac dynamism of the Greek Enlightenment in the 5th century BC, with the dynamism or order-in-chaos accounting for the existential contradiction which is inconsistent and variable in itself, and with a paradigm of de-liminality opening a new horizon of harmony and coexistence. The irrational thymos of women works as a metaphor of death and eradication, and a dynamic thyrsus of life and resuscitation as well.
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This paper tries to analyze the feature of ambiguity of Euripides’ female characters through Medea, Hecuba, and Bacchae, with the female ambiguity fluctuating between witch and heroine. The heroic females are, featured as god’s thyrsus, challenging the corruption of anomos(lawless, godless) society, a society that is, with a patriarchal bias, putting women on the other side of it, and is so lawless as to annihilate philia, and so obsessed with ill-guided reason as to ignore divine advice. On the other hand, as deadly witches, their irrational thymos is overlapped with madness and lethal demolition. Remarkably enough, Euripides’ ambiguous females are featured by the Dionysiac dynamism of the Greek Enlightenment in the 5th century BC, with the dynamism or order-in-chaos accounting for the existential contradiction which is inconsistent and variable in itself, and with a paradigm of de-liminality opening a new horizon of harmony and coexistence. The irrational thymos of women works as a metaphor of death and eradication, and a dynamic thyrsus of life and resuscitation as well.
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