Argonauts

Medea 's Conflict Between Duty and Freedom After failing to access the throne and bringing the king 's daughters to boil their father alive, Jason and Medea flee his hometown of Iolcus and settle in Corinth. When King Creon gives Jason the opportunity to be part of the royal family by marrying his daughter, Jason abandons his wife and children, leaving a betrayed Medea filled with rage and desire for revenge. Medea 's early feminism leads her to put the defense of her reputation ahead of her…

Medea did everything she could for Jason since she was in love with him. Medea betrayed her own family for Jason and in return he stabs her in the back. Jason used Medea to accomplish what he needed to accomplish for himself and when he couldn’t profit from her he left her. Medea was the daughter of Aeёtes, the King of Chalcis. She first met Jason when he came to her father’s kingdom looking for the Golden Fleece. Hera bribed Aphrodite to forge a love among Medea and Jason. Aeёtes said he would…

Women’s power is very unpredictable and becomes even more unpredictable during motherhood. This is made clear from Jesmyn Ward’s passage in the book Salvage the Bones when the mother, China, struggles to nurture her sick puppies, which leads to the mother snapping and killing one of her puppies. Everyone, including the the China was having a tough time accepting what China just Ward uses symbolism to express the unpredictable power of women. China symbolizes the unpredictable power of woman when…

Medea by Euripides is a tragedy of a woman who feels deceived by her husband, who has left her for another women and her jealousy overwhelms her. Medea is first seen as a helpless woman; as the play continues her true colors begin to unfold. The reader is shown Jason and Medea’s wrongdoings, Medea’s influence of the daughters of Pelias to commit murder and Jason’s abandonment towards Medea and his children. In Medea the theme and idea of love are seen throughout. In Medea although Jason and…

Medea: A Feminist Cry The majority of the plays written in Ancient Greece diminish women. Women were put into the same category as slaves and children. For the most part women were treated as objects instead of actual people. Women were given to men as time during times of war. Women were meant to stay at home and do chores or other womanly things like sew and raise children. They were never expected to speak up when a man made a decision that they did not agree with. They were supposed to take…

In the play, a barbaric woman who suffered a great deal of loss seeks revenge and uses the vulnerability of three foolish men: Jason, Creon, and Aegeus to further her agenda. With manipulation, brutality, and scheming Madea successfully pinpointed and took advantage of each man’s weakness. Although it is perceived that Jason, the father of Medea’s sons, married Creusa for selfish reasons, Jason insisted that he did it out of his children’s best interest. His sacrifices for his children make it…

Euripides’ Medea is a play of convict and relation. The storyline is based on past events including moments where Medea helped Jason steal a golden fleece from her father and even killing her brother. After this they both ran together to Corinth and had children. Jason then leaves Medea for a marriage to Creon’s daughter, Glauce. In Euripides play Medea, an in-depth view in is given into the life of a women scorned named Medea and her emotionally unstable reactions. The play begins amidst Jason…

Introduction: Euripides’ Medea is an emotional play that follows the tragic tale of Medea, a sorcerous and a princess from Colchis, who used her powers and influence to help Jason, her new husband, to procure the Golden Fleece. Now living with Jason in Corinth, they have two children together. Not before long things start to go bad when Jason abandons Medea and his two children for the daughter of King Creon, Glauce, leaving Medea to fend for herself with their two children. The Australian Zen…

The Woman in Stone and the Woman in a Tower: The Stories of Niobe and Danaë to Foreshadow Antigone’s Fate Sophocles’s Antigone follows Antigone, a girl born to the royal but doomed house of Cadmus. She is brought before her uncle Creon for breaking his law and burying her traitorous brother Polynices. As she waits for her sentence, stories of mortals and gods alike are told, including those of Niobe and Danaë. These stories of Niobe and Danaë are incorporated to foreshadow Antigone’s fate of…

In the translated book, Seneca Six Tragedies, by Emily Wilson, the one of the Greek tragedies, Medea, focuses on the personification of Fortune throughout the depiction of a story about women who was betrayed and abandoned by her husband. It is notable that the suffering undergone by the characters of this tragedy is seen through their behaviors and emotions, but the guiding hand leading to all their calamities is Fortune itself. The notion that pushes Jason to leave his kingdom to begin with…