Compare and contrast the justice of the gods between Euripides' Medea and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. If it were important for the Ancient Greeks to believe that the gods were in charge of everything, how might the story of Medea be upsetting to them?

 

Answer:

The plays were written in the same time period. They contain the same morals that were being taught to the writers in ancient Greek society. The plays share the same popular culture beliefs and they also contained a lot of the same characters- as they were believed to be real Gods, Goddesses, and creatures, by the society. Also, the most prominent motifs shared between the plays are revenge, duty, and death.

However, story written by Sophocles, is very different and more complex these representations always differ considerably from the plots of the story. Authors had a different conflict and each play seem to have extremely different views on the role of fate.