> In Euripides' *The Women of Troy*, the women are all passive victims
-Victims of hardship are typically cautious to fight back and hence are passive to further suffering. However, Euripides emphasises how this is not necessarily true, and exemplifies this through the responses of some of the women. There is a great contrast in the responseses to the d
+Victims of hardship are typically cautious to fight back and hence are passive to further suffering. However, Euripides emphasises how this is not necessarily true, and exemplifies this through the responses of some of the women. There is a great contrast in the responseses to the d...
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+1. Women have no choice, they are passive by force
+2. They appear passive to outsiders but their rebellion within each other motivates them
+2. Hecuba is not passive
+3. Cassandra is not passive
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+Hardship and opression inevitably forces individuals into a corner of helplessness and lament, and this is a prominent theme in Euripides' *Women of Troy*. However, despite the grief and loss that the women experience, they express a subtle element of rebellion and rejection of their inhumane treatment. As the women are gruesomely tortured by the Greeks, they have little room to object to their abuse, but Euripides emphasises how they do everything in their power to rebel against it. As a result, the play shows how those who are opressed by inhumane treatment are not necessarily forced into passivism, and that rebellion and activism always has some benefit to the individuals.
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+The characters in *Women of Troy* are
> Euripides' *Women of Troy* is not only an innovative perspective on the aftermath of the Trojan War, but also a portrayal of the barbaric actions of the Greeks towards the women and children the subjugated in the defeat of Troy. Discuss.