Euripides the women of Troy: creative piece

[Musty.100]

Hey people, can people send me creative pieces on The Women Of Troy you have received examples from your teacheror or have made one please,  so i can get ideas and compare it to mine. I've tried my teacher however, they don't have one. Thanks.

Mod edit: changed the title such that it no longer reads as though not receiving help with this piece would be a disaster of unfathomable proportions

[OZLexico]

I don't have a sample creative piece but I do have some advice I hope you'll find useful.  Do not feel that you have to write a play script as a creative response to The Women of Troy. You are allowed to adapt or modify the language of the original text - but you must mention this modification in your Statement of Intention (ie justify why you've used a different writing style from Euripides).  Teachers will often suggest a variety of writing styles for the creative task - an extra scene or missing part of the story, a first person narrative or a personal/reflective piece.  Think about the style you are most comfortable with.  Then, who is going to feature strongly in this and what are the main ideas, or the particular theme you want to explore in your piece of writing?  If you don't have much background on the story of the Trojan War, do some research of your own including some image searching of Troy, the Bronze Age.  For example - Polyxena is a priestess of Apollo and seer, is she the narrator of your piece?  She knows what will happen to her family members at the end of the war but they dismiss her knowledge.  Andromache in the play contrasts her love of (now dead) husband Hektor with the new relationship she must form with a new "master" as a slave. Her child is taken from her and killed by the Greek victors.  You could also take a step back from the text and write about how this play could be staged for a modern audience - what traditional elements of Greek Tragedy could be used (masks, costumes, sets)?   

[OZLexico]

I don't have a sample creative piece but I do have some advice I hope you'll find useful.  Do not feel that you have to write a play script as a creative response to The Women of Troy. You are allowed to adapt or modify the language of the original text - but you must mention this modification in your Statement of Intention (ie justify why you've used a different writing style from Euripides).  Teachers will often suggest a variety of writing styles for the creative task - an extra scene or missing part of the story, a first person narrative or a personal/reflective piece.  Think about the style you are most comfortable with.  Then, who is going to feature strongly in this and what are the main ideas, or the particular theme you want to explore in your piece of writing?  If you don't have much background on the story of the Trojan War, do some research of your own including some image searching of Troy, the Bronze Age.  For example - Polyxena is a priestess of Apollo and seer, is she the narrator of your piece?  She knows what will happen to her family members at the end of the war but they dismiss her knowledge.  Andromache in the play contrasts her love of (now dead) husband Hektor with the new relationship she must form with a new "master" as a slave. Her child is taken from her and killed by the Greek victors.  You could also take a step back from the text and write about how this play could be staged for a modern audience - what traditional elements of Greek Tragedy could be used (masks, costumes, sets)?   

[OZLexico]

Oops - didn't mean to post this twice! Sorry.

[OZLexico]

Just a brief correction of myself - It is Cassandra who is the priestess in Women of Troy.