The Alienation Ethnology of Medias Character in Euripides Tragedy

Abstract

This research dealt with the role of alienation in pushing the character of Euripides Medea towards committing the act of tragedy consciously and the insistence achieved by the author a special type of tragedy that is different from the pattern prevalent in his time .The researcher saw that the reason for killing Medea her two sons is that her alienation is of an ethnic nature motivated by the feeling of oppression and marginalization, so the title of his research is as follows : The Alienation Ethnology of Medias Character in Euripides Tragedy The researcher formulated the problem of research in this question: What is the impact of the ethnic difference in pushing the character of Medea to kill her two children in Euripides tragedy? The research consists of four chapters; 1) research methodology consisting of the research problem, importance, objectives, limits and terminology. 2) theoretical framework entitled: The personality of Medea as a name and the named according to the ancient Greeks, and discusses in three sections: Medea in Greek mythology, Medea in the history of Herodotus, and the image of the ancient Aryans among the ancient Greeks. The second chapter has previous studies, and differences between them. It also includes the theoretical framework indicators. 3) it is research procedures, including the research community, sample, method , tools and the analysis of the sample., and 4) devoted to the results of the research and its conclusions are listed in points and were responsive to the research problem.