{"id":67,"date":"2008-09-20T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T19:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/09\/20\/music-and-sound-social-implications-gender\/"},"modified":"2008-09-20T15:30:02","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T19:30:02","slug":"music-and-sound-social-implications-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/09\/20\/music-and-sound-social-implications-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Music and Sound: Social Implications? (Gender)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">In the last lines of <em>Medea<\/em>, Euripides uses the verbal interaction between Jason and Medea to show a reversal in the stereotypical gender roles of the time.\u00a0 Although Medea is a goddess, she represents a strong, unyielding female role that has power over her male counterpart in their relationship.\u00a0 Moments before the final grand spectacle, a distraught, weakened Jason is powerless to the will of Medea.\u00a0 He raises his voice (indicative of his losing all authority and pathetically lashing out for some form control) and demands that he be allowed to have his children back.\u00a0 Yet Madea is unwavering and persistent.\u00a0 Unlike Jason, she &quot;wastes&quot; no words and provides a simple, rational-sounding message that reflects her supremacy. \u00a0This kind of social commentary is interesting because women, who were rarely awarded the liberties of men at the time, were allowed to attend the plays at the Dionysus festival.\u00a0 It is possible that Euripides was sending a subtle message of hope and pride to all of the oppressed female members of his audience.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last lines of Medea, Euripides uses the verbal interaction between Jason and Medea to show a reversal in the stereotypical gender roles of the time.\u00a0 Although Medea is a goddess, she represents a strong, unyielding female role that has power over her male counterpart in their relationship.\u00a0 Moments before the final grand spectacle, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/09\/20\/music-and-sound-social-implications-gender\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music and Sound: Social Implications? (Gender)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[746],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musicsound-spectacle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}