Jason

• A city in Greece called Corinth, specifically in front of Jason and Medea’s house, around the time of an ancient mythological past. • The mood of the play “Medea” is overall dismal with Medea’s children being killed from the hands of their mother, Jason’s betrayal of his marriage bed, and the murder of the Princess. • Combination of first and third person depending on the scene presented in the play (a monologue or soliloquy). It also has a limited view, however, this changes to omniscient…

women have a resembling story. Their husbands, Jason and Agamemnon, betrayed Medea and Clytemnestra by committing adultery. Clytemnestra and Medea did not take this unfaithfulness very well. Both women acted out of hurt when they exacted revenge against their adulterous husbands, by using their cunning wits. In the play Medea, Medea feels victimized and outraged when she ascertains her husband planned on leaving her for King Creon’s daughter, Glauce. Jason also decided to exile Medea and keep…

the hands of the enemies. In her mind, if the kids were to die, she wanted it done by her own hands. So she steels herself as she murders her beloved sons. She also kills her sons to wound Jason and endure as much agony as she is in. Again, her only motivation to the evil that she performs is to repay Jason in kind for the grief that he put Medea in.…

Hello Corinth citizens! Today we have a special topic given the news of our royals. Today in the Corinth Daily we want to talk about the justice or the injustice of Medea's actions. Medea, ex-wife of Jason, had made the ultimate decision to end her children's life. This choice has currently had no repercussions, should her actions be punished? Medea was replaced by a new love of Jason's which she did not agree with. She was sparked with anger and thus began planning her payback. Lovers quarrels…

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…

Euripides releases in his play Medea that moderation is imperative to a successful existence. Performed in the city Dionysia in 431 BCE, Euripides’ tragedy Medea, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea, the plot centres on the actions of Medea, a former princess of the “barbarian” kingdom of Colchis, and the wife of Jason. Euripides’ tragic story revolving around anger and revenge ending in pain and ruin for most characters entrenches the notion that moderation in all forms is imperative to a…

Jim Sanderson’s Faded Love and Euripides’ Medea come from completely different points in time, yet they show numerous similarities. In this paper I will examine literary elements in both works that help develop the story, the role of tragedy as a theme, and numerous similarities that are listed throughout both stories. In Faded Love we start our short story in Odessa, Texas at a car dealership where two former University of Texas football players by the names Bailey Waller and Pooter Elam work.…

Women are dangerous. Hundreds upon hundreds of works will tell you that women are these dangerous, cunning, and devious figures who desire mayhem. Like Medea, a clever and foreign woman who seeks revenge on her husband by her own methods, or like Lysistrata, an assertive woman who refused to move until her demands were met. Back then, societies were male-dominating and portrayed these women as a symbol of danger and shame, establishing a standard on how women should behave; however, the function…

Medea’s father requested that in order for Jason to receive the golden fleece he must endure through challenges that the king has placed for him. Medea, in spite of her father, helps Jason accomplish his tasks. Medea sits and ponders the decision about betraying her father and the possible outcomes that may occur, “Will I betray the kingdom of my father, only to have…

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…