History YMMV / TheTrojanWomen

 * AngstAversion: A lot of readers (including translator Gilbert Murray) just simply can't finish the play because of how bleak and hopeless it is, with the only hope for the characters being Athena and Poseidon's curse on the Greek warriors and Cassandra's promise of bringing ruin to Agamemnon.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Helen. Being easily the least sympathetic female character of the group as well as having a war waging because of her that led to the entire tragedy doesn't do her any favors.

* AngstAversion: A lot of readers (including translator Gilbert Murray) just simply can't finish the play because of how bleak and hopeless it is, with the only hope for the characters being Athena and Poseidon's curse on the Greek warriors and Cassandra's promise of bringing ruin to Agamemnon.

* TheWoobie: The entire Trojan female population, but those who stand out are Hecuba and Andromache.

* AngstAversion: A lot of readers (including translator Gilbert Murray) just simply can't finish the play because of how bleak and hopeless it is, with the only hope for the characters is Athena and Poseidon's curse on the Greek warriors and Cassandra's promise of bringing ruin to Agamemnon.

* TearJerker: The entire play from beginning to end is miserable and heart-wrenching read.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: WOMEN ARE PEOPLE, NOT OBJECTS OR TROPHIES, with pain, dreams and hopes of their own. No, being on the side of the enemy doesn't negate that. This sentiment unfortunately didn't amuse or get through to the Ancient Greek audience.

* AngstAversion: A lot of readers (including translator Gilbert Murray) just simply can't finish the play because of how bleak and hopeless it is, with the only hope for the characters is Athena and Poseidon's curse on the Greek warrior Cassandra's promise of bringing ruin to Agamemnon.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: WarIsHell, no matter if it was 1200 BC, 415 BC or even 2000 AD. The message is timeless and universal, which is why the tragedy has aged so well.
** WOMEN ARE PEOPLE, NOT OBJECTS OR TROPHIES, with pain, dreams and hopes of their own. No, being on the side of the enemy doesn't negate that. This sentiment unfortunately didn't amuse or get through to the Ancient Greek audience.

* RealitySubtext: As Creator/{{Euripides}} was fond of using old myths to explore the quandaries of contemporary Athenian culture there are undertones of some of his contemporary issues:
** It was produced during UsefulNotes/ThePeloponnesianWar, when for the sake of its hegemony Athens subjected the pacific island of Melos, slaughtering and enslaving its people;
** That was also the year of the scandalous desecration of the ''hermai'' [[note]] A simple squared sculpture with a head and male genitals carved in the lower section, which were placed at crossings, country borders and boundaries as a symbol of Hermes' protection, and vandalizing them was seen as a big no-no for Greeks [[/note]] and was also the Athenians' second expedition to Sicily, maybe reflected by Cassandra's vicious rape in Athena's temple (another big no-no, as intercourse was forbidden inside the temples) and Sicily is mentioned by the GreekChorus.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Helen. Being easily the least sympathetic female character of the group as well as having a war waging because of her that led to the entire tragedy doesn't do her much favor.
* OneSceneWonder: Cassandra appears in a single scene where she lights the fires to celebrate her "marriage" to Agamemnon, where she totally steals the scene with her wild {{Foreshadowing}} and a ''very'' sympathetic purpose of revenge.

** It was produced during UsefulNotes/ThePeloponnesianWar, when fir the sake of its hegemony Athens subjected the pacific island of Melos, slaughtering and enslaving its people;
** That was also the year of was also the year of the scandalous desecration of the ''hermai'' [[note]] A simple squared sculpture with a head and male genitals carved in the lower section, which were placed at crossings, country borders and boundaries as a symbol of Hermes' protection, and vandalized them was saw as a big no-no for Greeks [[/note]] and also the Athenians' second expedition to Sicily, maybe reflected by Cassandra's vicious rape in Athena's temple (another big no-no, as intercourses were forbidden inside the temples) and Sicily is mentioned by the GreekChorus.
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: This play did thid to many of the flat female chracters in the Trojan war mythology while boosting up old favorite Cassandra. The most prominent examples are Hecuba, Andromache and Helen who went from SatelliteCharacter to the lead in their titular plays.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: WarIsHell, no matter if it was the 1200 BC, the 415 BC or even the 2000 AD. The message it's timeless and universal, which is why the tragedy has aged so well.
** WOMEN ARE PEOPLE, NOT OBJECTS OR TROPHIES, with pain, dream and hope of their own. No, being on the side of the enemy doesn't negate that. This sentiment unfortunately didn't amuse or get through to the Ancient Greeks audience.
* TheWoobie: The entire Trojan female population, but those who stands up are Hecuba and Andromache.

** It was produced during UsefulNotes/ThePeloponnesianWar, when fir the sake of its hegemony Athens subjected the pacific island of Melos, slaughtering and enslaving his people,

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: This play did thid to many of the flat female chracters in the Trojan war mythology while boosting up old favorites like Cassandra. The most prominent examples are Hecuba, Andromache and Helen who went from SatelliteCharacter to the lead in their titular plays.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: This play did thid to many of the flat female chracters in the Trojan war mythology while boosting up old favorites like Cassandra, Hecuba and Helen that would continue in their titular plays.

** WOMEN ARE PEOPLE, NOT OBJECT OR TROPHIES, with pain, dream and hope of their own. This sentiment unfortunately didn't amuse or get through to the Ancient Greeks audience.

** Women are people too with pain, dream and hope of their own. This sentiment unfortunately didn't amuse or get through to the Ancient Greeks audience.

** Women are people too with pain, dream and hope of their own. This sentiment unfortunately didn't amuse the Ancient Greeks audience.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: WarIsHell, no matter if it was the 1200 BC, the 415 BC or even the 2000 AD. The message it's timeless and universal, which is why the tragedy has aged so well.