defined by Meriam Dictionary is a strong feeling of anger that is difficult to control. It is also defined as a sudden expression of violent anger. Medea is a tragic drama in which the protagonist, Medea, experiences much rage towards her husband Jason. The anger inside of her causes her to kill many people including Glauce, Creon, and her two sons. The Iliad is an epic poem in which the protagonist, Achilles, along with the antagonist, Hector, and Agamemnon experience much rage towards each…
Medea. Medea’s love for her husband, Jason, is so much, and so is the pain when Jason betrayed her…
What is the truth behind Jason? On the exterior, I see a very heroic and brave young boy who embarks on a long journey to capture the Golden Fleece and save his mother’s life. He is the perfect representation of a protagonist: young, handsome, strong, and fighting for and against something or someone greater than himself. Therefore, it would be preposterous for me to think he is not the man he appears to be. Or would it? I see Jason for who he really is, a scared, young boy acting foolishly on…
loves her two sons, doesn’t accept any other option besides killing them. The murder, or sacrifice in Medea’s eyes, was all in favor of Medea achieving the revenge on Jason she so desperately seeks. Well aware that the sacrifice will not bring Jason and Medea back together, the idea of the grief and sadness it will bring upon Jason is enough for Medea to be convinced. Medea, who loves her sons, will feel the same grief and sadness, but her extremist ways towards achieving her desires supersede…
perfect example of the contract made in marriage not carried out when one of the main characters, Tomas, abandons his wife and children in the wake of an avalanche. Euripides’ play Medea also depicts a broken marriage contract when Medea’s husband Jason leaves his children and wife to marry a princess. The contracts spouses create when they become partners for life include spoken words in the vows exchanged, a tangible sign of promises made to each other, yet there…
Medea has the perfect plan and she uses an unlikely source to do it. Yet, before she could put her plan into action, she begs Jason to convince his new wife to accept their kids as it is not fair that they get to be exiled from the only place they know. Jason, who at first was okay with having his kids exiled, wavers and decides to okay the situation and convince his wife into accepting his kids. Medea, now having her means of transportation, decides to do something special, “I too will aid thee…
Both “Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood paired with Ulysses The Sirens by John Williams Waterhouse use the myth of Ulysses to show that he was surrounded by sirens and tied to an long pole and couldn't break loose.The Sirens were scary and dangerous creatures that seduced the sailors with their attractive voices to their doom and causing the ships to ruin by the island.The Sirens likes to hurt people by luring sailors with their enchanting music to their…
with Jason, however, the love Medea shares for Jason is not reciprocated. Jason refers to Medea’s people as barbarians when he tells her, “instead of living amongst barbarians, you inhabit a Greek land,” and she proves him right through her actions throughout the play. She acts out in a barbaric way, especially to those she loves. Medea is so vengeful that she is willing to to kill her own children to hurt Jason. Jason and Medea are madly in love, or at least Medea is madly in love with Jason.…
a tragedy of a woman who feels that her husband has betrayed her with another woman. Upon this betrayal, Medea swears to exact revenge upon Jason and his new wife Gluace, the daughter of Creon, King of Corinth. We are first introduced to an agonizing Medea, racked by sorrow over husband's lack of faith. Medea's nurse is relaying Medea's reaction to Jason taking a new bed: She just lies there. She won't eat—her body she…
Queen of the British Celtic tribe the Iceni, Boudicca led a revolt against the Roman Empire. After the death of her husband and betrayal of his final will and testament which left his kingdom to both his daughters and the Roman Emperor Nero to hopefully stop attacks on their tribe and form an alliance. The kingdom was invaded and once Boudicca objected to this both Boudicca and her children were beaten and raped. As well as this the other chiefs of the tribe were robbed of their family estates.…