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betrayal. Medea’s husband, Jason, betrays her when he abandons her and takes another wife. Medea feels a hatred for Jason and wants him to “pay” for the pain he has caused her. But Medea also betrays her children. Mothers are supposed to care for their children and do everything they can to make sure their children live and have the best life possible. Medea betrays her children by not living up to these expectations; she kills her children just to inflict pain on Jason by “killing his legacy,”…

Medea meets the standards of a heroine in this play. Medea has a quest to seek revenge on her husband Jason because he betrayed her by leaving her for another woman. Medea shows that she is strong willed, and is not willing to accept her husband actions. Medea's pursuit of retaliation…

by authors, who are most definitely not young adults, and social change in society. Sung by Lee Hi, Rose is about how love is like a rose. It sounds cheesy but it is actually true, in a sense. The petals of a rose represent the happiness and beauty of love, it is also the first thing a person sees when they come across a rose. However, the thorns represent pain and the darker side of love. The thorns are overlooked in favor of the petals, but in order to have a healthy love, both the petals…

Mrs. Delacroix rushing to the front of the crowd with the largest stone to kill her supposed friend Mrs. Hutchinson suggests the sharp turn from friend to enemy in society, the ending of her friend’s pain, and the act of wanting to get the gruesome tradition over with. In society, people can switch sides in a snap. One new piece of information can cause someone’s stand point to completely transform. Once Mrs. Delacroix realized her friend was the sacrifice, she may have converted to the other’s…

reaction, empathy migrates towards Medea. It shows within the characteristics of the chorus. The other characters all at one point feel emotion and remorse towards her. The play makes Jason out to be this dreadful person that destroyed an abandoned Medea. Certain passages in the play note otherwise in my opinion. Jason left her…

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 having left Medea to marry Glauce. After Medea has a…

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…

Medea was more of a victim or a victimizer. First, Medea’s whole situation started from her husband Jason being unfaithful. This already makes Medea a victim to cheating and harsh emotions as shown in the play. Medea was also a victim to love. She fell for Jason when he came to her homeland. This is where Madea’s foolishness came in and made her a bigger victim to love. Because Medea loved Jason, she committed many crimes for the sake of him and her being together. She loved him so much that…

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…

Medea goes on to kill her children because of the fact that her husband loves them. Medea does all of these things because of her “love and hate” for Jason. In the end Medea achieves her goal of destroying her Jason’s life. Medea believes that Jason’s betrayal justifies her revenge, although almost all of the characters in the story believe that Jason has done nothing wrong at all, and is completely justified in leaving her because he is a man. In the time period in which this play was written…