Alcestis

Alcestis In the play Alcestis by Euripides, at first, the character Admetus seems disturbing. Admetus was the husband of Alcestis and the king of Thessaly. How is anyone supposed to take a man who first makes the rounds of his loved ones to as them each in turn to die in his places and accepts his wife’s death for his own and at the last minute asks her not to become angry with him seriously' Why is Admetus rewarded by having his wife restored to him' He seems guilty of cowardice in the face of death, betraying all his promises to his wife, and disowning his own parents and blaming them for the death of Alcestis. But towards the end of the play Admetus turns himself around when his wife is surprisingly restored to him. In the play, Alcestis is presented as a young wife and mother who clearly valued her life, who found it rewarding, and who wanted to see her children grow up, marry and have children of their own. After Alcestis’ death, Admetus’ personality and inner self is shown to the readers. I saw him most clearly when he was denying everything that makes admetus, death, wife, alcestis, hercules, life, play, own, admetus’, made, home, first, back, alcestis’, wife’s, stay, seems, role, return, restored, man, makes, love, husband, himself, even, clearly, children, brings, best, been, angry, alive, again, in