Crime and punishment
- Created by: Alice Edwards-King
- Created on: 13-06-17 14:23
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- CRIME + PUNISHMENT
- MEDEA
- Medea commits the crime of murder
- Jason's betrayal could be seen as a crime
- Medea coming from a non-Greek country
- Creon exiles Medea before she has done anything
- Premature exile
- He is worried she will do something before it has happened
- Medea is exiled as a punishment
- Creon lets a married man marry his daughter
- If anybody else had done this they would've been punished
- Punishment on Glauce and Creon through death
- Jason is punished for his betrayal
- Glauce is dead
- The children are dead
- HIPPOLYTUS
- Phaedra's desire for Hippolytus is a crime
- Hippolytus is accused of a crime - ****
- Theseus cursing Hippolytus could be seen as a crime
- Phaedra is punished by the nurse when she tells Hippolytus
- She is also punished when she dies
- She is punished after death by losing her reputation
- Something she was so desperate to keep
- Hippolytus commits a crime of hubris
- He is not worshiping all the gods
- Hippolytus is punished by his death
- Theseus is punished by Hippolytus dying
- Also punished by Phaedra's death
- ANTIGONE
- Antigone breaks the law by burying Polynices
- Says she is following the gods' law though
- Creon breaks divine law by not allowing burial rites
- Creon believes in obedience to man-made laws
- Antigone is punished for her actions
- She is put in the chamber locked away
- She is 'buried' an unmarried woman
- Due to the conditions she commits suicide - the ultimate personal punishment
- Creon is also punished for his actions
- Haemon commits suicide because of Antigone
- Eurydice commits suicide because of Haemon
- Antigone breaks the law by burying Polynices
- OEDIPUS
- Oedipus is punished by the death of Jocasta and by blinding himself
- Laius' murder is a crime
- Oedipus curses his house at the beginning
- Cursing himself w/out knowing it
- Incest is a major crime
- Committed by Oedipus and Jocasta
- Jocasta is punished through death
- Oedipus is exiled for his actions
- The children are punished by who their parents are
- Foreshadowed to live bad lives
- The shepherd is punished for the truth he knows
- MEDEA
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