Le pouvoir dans Médée

Realizing the startling presence of the vocabulary of tyrannical power in a play yet so slightly political, we ewamine the way in which Euripides, while drawing inspiration from traditional tragic situations that stage the tyrant, so develops them as to present power in a new original light. Creon's "tyranny" is not so much political excess as the exercise of familial authority, which arouses in the characters opposite attitudes in which the traditional roles between man and wife are subverted : the husband speaks the language of domestic interest while Medea on the contrary expresses her revolt in political terms. Medea eventually asserts her autonomy by using the language of power against herself. Tyrannical political power, traditional in tragedy, is thus presented in an original way : from being political it becomes an essentially familial authority and creates the emergence of an internalized, psychological power, the power which Medea exerts on herself in order to assert herself against the authority of others

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