Tragedy of the Trojan Women
... The women, those unable to fight, the elderly, the ill. ... The play, The Trojan Women, is strongly against war and depicts the devastation and aftermath through the eyes of those beyond the front lines. ... All of the men having been killed and the women and children taken captive. The women await their “sentencing” in a camp which is their temporary home as well as their prison. Opening with Hecuba rising from the ground weakened and filthy, the play provides a penetrating view of the suffering that the Trojan women endured. Hecuba, the previous queen of the fallen city, had been removed from her prosperous life and forced to travel with the other captive women. ... They degraded an defiled the captive women of Troy to the point of utter humiliation, using their bodies to benefit themselves. ... The Greeks had chosen to do with the women whatever they fancied including putting them to death for no apparent reason.