Jason Baldwin

Jason the legendary Greek hero most known for leading the Argonauts a band of strong brave men and the quest for the Golden Fleece. “Jason and the Argonauts were known to be the bravest and most adventurous group of men in all of ancient Greece” (Hudson). Jason though he was a mortal and was not connected to god he was under protection of the goddess Hera whose favours he had gained. Jason may not be talented or have any powers but he is still interpreted as a hero in Greek mythology, Jason’s…

The focal point of Sophocles’ Antigone is the protagonist’s desire and search for justice. Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, is the play’s tragic heroine who fights against the evil Creon, the current King of Thebes. Her rebellion against the king was ignited by her thirst for justice, stopping at nearly nothing to combat the immoralities standing in her way. In her heart, the sacredness of family and honor is the pinnacle aspect of her life. These beliefs of hers create the source of…

When Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers, is mentioned, he is immediately associated with his work as the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, his avid support of the Federalists, his aid in the creation of American currency and the national treasury, and his undoubted conviction to uphold his ideals. Within the realm of these topics, controversy abounds, without even considering the nature of his death: he was killed as the result of a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804…

I know a story of Empress Wu, who was an ambitious woman in the ancient Chinese history. Wu Chao was born in 625, the daughter of a Chinese general. Attracted by her beauty, Emperor Tang Taizong chose her to be his concubine when she was only thirteen years old. After his death in 649, she became concubine to the next emperor, Kao Tsung, and bore him four sons and a daughter. Wu Chao was extremely jealous of the empress and greatly desirous of power. It is said that she strangled her own…

about how mischievously Jason betrayed her. Planning to persuade the chorus that she is not in the wrong for feeling frantic, but instead Jason’s in view of the fact of what he has done. The chorus caught a glimpse of Medea trying to please Jason, just for him to break her heart and marry another. Towards the conclusion, after Medea has made all these…

in her marriage to Jason). The key to understanding this symbol is that…

of revenge is, “The action of inflicting hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands” (Oxford Dictionary). Otherwise, revenge means to get back at someone after being hurt. Similarly, Medea starts her dastardly plot after Jason leaves Medea and her kids, and that is something she cannot easily forget. As the quote says, Medea's desire for revenge overshadows all of her other emotions throughout the story. Euripides’s play, also called Medea,…

that women are inferior to men in society and inequalities between the two genders exist. The concept of feminism is deeply engraved in Euripides’s tragic play Medea. Jason, the male protagonist, has abandoned his wife, Medea, along with their two children and sproted an affair with Glauce, the daughter of the king of Corinth. Jason plans to remarry Glauce to gain access to the throne. However, his decision angers Medea, who has sacrificed her family to be with him. Out of rage, she executes a…

unpunished? I SHALL ARGUE THAT Medea’s main conflict IS that she must try and reclaim her honor, after Jason disgraced her. Her conflict IS tragic because Medea tries to reclaim her honor by committing evil, and with full knowledge. She escapes unpunished because Euripides wanted a woman to win in his play, something uncommon in ancient Greek works. As the play begins, we immediately learn that Jason betrayed his wife, Medea, and abandoned her and their two children, so that he could marry the…

Stephenie Meyer, author of The Twilight Series, once said “the right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else.” The play Medea, written by Euripides, is about a heartbroken woman who decides the best way to make her ex-husband feel the pain he caused inside her, is to kill his newlywed wife, his new father-in-law, and the children they both raised. In the play Medea, the author uses Medea’s twisted sense of justice to…