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In this opportunity I bring you a small glimpse of three stories that really are classics of literature and they come from myths and facts of one of the most important civilizations that have existed throughout the history of mankind, the Greeks. Basically they are 3 tragedies of Greek theater focused on emotions and human and social conflicts that are quite interesting to read and understand. Without further ado, let's begin.
- Medea.
This story is one of Euripides' most important works and begins with Jason, Medea's husband, who is determined to leave her in order to marry the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth. Medea in her great spite goes into a rage to the point of being out of her mind and swearing that she would take revenge on the man who until that moment was her husband.
What happens? - Well, she creates a farce through her children and pretending to have been persuaded by her husband, she sends some gifts to the future bride in the same palace of Creonte; the detail is that these gifts came with an evil and deadly spell that ends with the life of Creonte himself, the bride and her own children, who were also Jason's children. It is a representation of how very dark the human with a wounded heart can be.
- Antígona.
We come to the second story but this time we are facing a myth of ancient Greece by Sophocles. The plot focuses on Antígona who seeks to defy the law in order to pay homage to her dead brother, Polynices, who in turn is branded as a traitor to the homeland. Here we also observe Creon as the king who imposed such a mandate only because this brother of Antigone led an army against the city of Thebes.
The laws of the gods say it well, that everyone who dies must be buried so that they can descend to Hades, but the king did not think the same and opposed this. From that moment on, a "struggle" begins on the part of our protagonist that will lead her to confront between divine and human laws, knowing that in this struggle she could lose her life.
- Edipo Rey.
This is perhaps the most important work of Sófocles, who touches on everything related to destiny and how we have to accept who we are from the moment we are born. If there is a common denominator is that these three stories take place in Thebes. It is in Thebes where Oedipus is born, at birth the Oracle of Delphi tells the boy's father that his son will kill him in the future and that not satisfied with that he will sleep with his wife, that is, the same mother of Edipo.
Edipo' father, Laius, before that vision decides to kill his own son but in the end he cannot and so he entrusts the task to one of his lackeys who cannot either so he chooses to abandon him in a forest. A family rescues him and raises him until he grows up and decides to visit the Oracle where he reaffirms what he once told his father so full of fear he flees.
From now on, a series of things will happen that will lead Edipo to his birthplace, thus making that dire prophecy come true, but I don't want to go any further so that you will be encouraged to read it.
- Opinion.
Having read these three great and important works, it is clear to us more or less how things were in ancient Greece, an incredibly advanced civilization for some things and not so much for others, and we see that in Medea. In this first story we see how the role of women was represented in those times, which was clearly a secondary role but here with Medea we see a determined and strong-willed woman with two nuances: the one of standing up to injustice as a heroine or the vengeful one even killing her children? - food for thought.
With Antigona we see the struggle between the earthly and the spiritual with respect to whom and in what way we should follow. It is one of the best tragedies of Sophocles because in it we see much suffering and many deaths and where even in those times we can appreciate how stubborn and despot certain rulers can be. Besides we also see how difficult it is for the human being to rectify when a decision is made just because he does not want to give his arm to twist.
And the last one, Edipo Rey, I think it is the tragedy par excellence of all Greek history. While it is true that I do not believe much in destiny, this story may make me question that thought a little every time I read it, the teaching is basically that against what is "written" we can not escape, that fate at some point in your life will catch up with you no matter what. A tragedy to reflect on where what you see is pure pain in its maximum expression.
En fin, tres de las más top tragedias del drama y del teatro griego que sin duda no puede o no deberían de dejar de ser leídas ya que son consideradas grandes obras de la literatura de todos los tiempos.
In short, three of the top tragedies of Greek drama and theater that undoubtedly cannot or should not fail to be read as they are considered great works of literature of all time.
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