Jason

Upon being betrayed by husband Jason, who married another woman while still wed to Medea, this heartbroken woman experiences emotional suffering that many worldwide, throughout history and today, can relate to. Presented to the audience is a woman who gave up her family and home, betraying…

In the novel Black Swan Green, David Mitchell told the story of thirteen year old Jason Taylor, and how he survived being a teenager, even though he barely seemed to make it through age thirteen. When it came to the little imperfections in his life, for example, his stammer, or his crushes or the loss of a watch belonging to his deceased grandfather, Jason clearly was not blessed with a perfect life, and neither is anyone else. He was incapable of handling his own complications himself due to…

Jason's Pov. "Jason get up and make my breakfast!" My so called father screams at me. I'm so glad and upset that school starts today. I am tired of seeing my dad all day, but I don't want to go back to school to get bullied all the time, just because I am gay. After making my father breakfast. I head to school. Since I don't have a car, I have to walk to school. On they way to school I think about how I got myself into this situation. I mean I have no friends and everyone hates me. Even my…

Grahame-Smith’s most important factor of influence was his editor at Quirk Books, Jason Rekulak. Rekulak introduced to Grahame-Smith the idea of “a literary mash-up, combining the great Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice with zombies,” (“Seth Grahame-Smith Biography” par. 6). Enlightened by the notion of a “mash-up” for his next book, Grahame-Smith immediately wrote the book that came to be known as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which helped him achieve his first breakthrough in his…

The picturesque landscape of the Old South has deeply engrained itself into the minds of many. Decades preceding the Civil War was a time of mansions, plantations and the idealistic Southern gentleman, his exquisite wife, their children and their slaves. Each plantation had a stoic white mansion with Roman pillars, surrounded by fields of cotton and tobacco filled with field hands harmonizing in song. The iconic image that the Old South lives by, the family enjoying church on Sunday mornings,…

We waited, standing on the hot summer concrete. We stood by two security guards. They seemed tired and unamused, like they had done this routine multiple times before now. We weren’t really big anyway, so I could understand why they would act that way on front of us. After a few minutes of waiting, a line of cars pulled up. We walked up to the curb and climbed into the middle car. It was black and long with dark tinted windows. It looked chunky for an ordinary car, so I assumed it was armored.…

thought into whether he should or shouldn’t go to college. Having already achieved wealth and power, he does not have a goal in sight for attending college. Wanting to support his son’s decision to go to college and on a deeper level be accepted by Jason, he buys his way into the University. Money is the answer to everything in Thornton’s mind, by buying and giving things away he creates friends, along with that he pays titled people to do his homework, such as NASA, and Kurt Vonnegut. What…

Salesman, respectively. The ultimate tragic heroes of these plays, Jason, Macbeth, and Willy, correspondingly, are unable to accept the realities of their life because of their fixed views on how it should be, this brings them to their inevitable downfall; as well as taking their partner down with them in the process. Although Medea is the main character of the play and possesses some traits of a tragic hero, Jason is the true one. Jason embodies the characteristics of being of noble…

Supervised Writing- MEDEA Prompt 1: How is the Chorus the vehicle of social comment and cultural values? → Medea is a mythical ancient Greek tragedy about a sorceress Medea and her revengeful and jealous intentions against her husband Jason as she thinks Jason has betrayed her by marrying the princess of Corinth. It’s a heavy play in terms of broken vows and treachery, leading to a powerful peripetia in the play. There is an ongoing conflict throughout the play on many levels- be it oikos or…

The Festival of Dionysus was an ancient festival held in Athens, Greece in which three poets wrote three tragedies and one satyr play that were to be judged in a competition (“Great Dionysia”). All the plays by one poet were witnessed in one day, so the competition was held over a span of three days (Gaines and Westersund). The festival was held in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and revelry (“Great Dionysia”). 2. What is the role of the chorus? The chorus was a group that generally…