| A | Position of Women | |
| 1. in marriage | ||
| 2.socially and politically | ||
| 3.their subordination to men | ||
| 4. their dependence on men | ||
| a) the spirited woman | ||
| b) the conventional (narcissistic) woman | ||
| 5. woman's field of action - restricted but important | ||
| B | Parenthood | |
| 1. children destroyed by their parents (future imperilled by) | ||
| 2. the concerns of parents | ||
| a) fathers - to have an heir or heirs | ||
| b) mothers - their children's future and the home | ||
| 3. and security needed for it | ||
| 4. children made instruments of by by their parents | ||
| 5. the price of parenthood | ||
| 6. what parents will do to others for their children | ||
| 7. childlssness - a curse or a blessing | ||
| C | Divorce | |
| 1. the battle between men and women | ||
| 2. how children are affected | ||
| D | Oath-taking & supplication; | involving men and gods |
| 1. the honest barbarian and perjured Greek | ||
| a) Jason | ||
| b) Aegeus | ||
| E | The indifference of the gods to right and wrong | |
| F | The heroic code | |
| 1. for men | ||
| 2. for women | ||
| G | Hands | - the instruments of action - and their power to do good and ill |
| H | The slave | - shown superior to the aristocrat |
| 1. more perspicacious | ||
| 2. more loyal | ||
| 3. more moral | ||
| I | What poisons human relations? | (Poison) |
| 1. ambition | ||
| 2. self-centredness | ||
| J | Past and Present- | Medea relates to Athens via Theseus |
| related to each other | ||
| - tomb at Corinth of children | ||
| -chorus talk about Athens and its attitudes |
