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    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 hand…

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    The book Glass Sword is about a girl named Mare who finds herself on a deadly path trying to be someone she isn't. As Mare escaped from the prison, Maven, who she thought loved her but turned on her, put her in; she found herself debating what to do. She needed to save the newbloods, who were people like her with a power, yet Red blooded, but she knew all of their lives would be at risk. First, she gathered up some of her friends at Tuck, the islands where all of the Red bloods were hiding from…

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    Jason and the Argonauts There is no doubt, we all love heroes, superheroes, detectives, crime fighters, the young Jedi in Star Wars. We adore all the stories about these extraordinary people doing everything they can to save humanity. Whether it is in movies, TV shows, novels or comic books, these superheroes have now become an obsession. Just take a look at the story of Jason and the Argonauts. The journey of the argonauts can well be one of the Oldest adventure of Greek mythology. “It is a…

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    the story, The Golden Fleece, Jason uses Medea for his selfish needs. In return, Medea kills Jason’s new wife by burning her alive. “But no sooner had she put it on than a fearful, devouring fire enveloped her. For example, when Esch said “I loved you! This is Medea wielding the knife. This is Medea cutting” (204). Since Esch was vulnerable, she started to attack Manny. This is also what happened to Medea. After Jason used Medea, her vulnerability made her kill Jason. Another example is when…

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    How Did Jason Betray Medea

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    show particular points of betrayal, both done against and by Medea. The chorus claims that Medea killed her children because she wanted to betray Jason. One more claim would be that the chorus betrayed Medea because they did not stick by her when she was going to kill her children, and the final one would be that Jason intimately betrayed Medea after…

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    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’s children play a minor role character they are crucial to the plays innocence. Children are vital part to a family…

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    Euripides does not state why Jason starts to actually care for him but I have an idea why. He was not too worried because he believed that they would be taken care of by their mother and later by him when he states on lines 668-672, “ I want to raise them in the proper way, one worthy of my house, to have brothers for the children born from you, and make them 670 all the same. Thus, with a united family I might prosper” Jason is saying he wants…

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    Even the nurse is fearful of what Medea may do, “her ways are too wild, her nature is hateful, her mind is too willful.” (Lines 110-111) Hurt and full of resentment because of the affair, she plans to hurt Jason but worse than how he hurt her. Her intent is to cause the maximum damage , even if the actions would wound her just as badly. As she plans the murder of Jason's new wife and her two children, her main reasoning is that she spares herself being humiliated…

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    Power In Medea

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    Medea is without a doubt one of the most powerful women in literature, redefining femininity in a male-dominated environment, becoming a symbol of passionate revenge in history. Author Euripides creates interchangeable roles as a relentless heroine and inversely as an immoral antagonist within Medea, making it difficult to pinpoint the exact source of her expansive power; regardless we see Medea’s protagonist, time and time again, rise above her oppressors in a display of her mighty influence…

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    Medea Feminist Analysis

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    that they did not agree with. They were supposed to take the back seat to their husbands. Medea was different, she didn’t sit back and let her husband treat her as an object that could be left in the corner and forgotten. She took a stand helping Jason on his quest and took revenge on him when he betrayed…

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