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    Samantha Bee Essay

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    Amid the chaos, Sam met her future Husband, Jason Jones. The two met together when working on a children’s production, and would continue to work together for the foreseeable future on different jobs. Between balancing a job as a waitress and acting both in performances and vocal talent roles, Sam was doing everything within her power to become achieve her dream job. Sam says in an interview with NPR that at the early stages of her career if she was given the choice to have any role, it “would have been to perform Lady Macbeth." (CITE BIO PAGE?) Knowing that she never could perform in such a play, an interesting question we could ask Sam would be “If you ever were given the opportunity to perform in Lady MacBeth now, what would you do?” During this hectic landscape of acting in whatever Sam…

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    Medea Argumentative Essay

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    a lot of variables here to consider in terms of Medea and Jason. I initially reacted with a doubt on Jason’s end and confirmed that Medea could actually make a good case in defense of getting back at him. I knew she suffered immensely from Jason’s leaving her for another woman, and judging from how badly she handled it, she did need some form of therapy. What i failed to see was how unstable she really was. This was more and more impressed in me as I continued…

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    Euripides, it is shown that ancient Greeks had a male-dominated society. In this play, Medea, a Barbarian, scornful woman, rebels against the norm of ancient Greek submissive women by killing her two sons to achieve the ultimate vengeance against her husband, Jason, that cheated on her. Still to this day, this play is one of the most radical pieces of…

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    Through his great Athenian tragedy Medea (431 BCE), Euripides illustrates the gradual destruction of his eponymous protagonist’s humanity in the relentless pursuit of vengeance and justice. Medea is ostracized for her position as a woman and is predisposed to judgement from Greek society, yet, it is ultimately Jason who suffers from both societal and divine retribution, as he is chastised greatly for his betrayal of his family and his unyielding desire for pride and success. However, whilst…

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    daughters to boil their father alive, Jason and Medea flee his hometown of Iolcus and settle in Corinth. When King Creon gives Jason the opportunity to be part of the royal family by marrying his daughter, Jason abandons his wife and children, leaving a betrayed Medea filled with rage and desire for revenge. Medea 's early feminism leads her to put the defense of her reputation ahead of her maternal obligations as she decides to accomplish her revenge at the detriment of her children 's life.…

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    "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." As Gandhi shares a brilliant piece of mind, he describes how the world is so wicked and malevolent that it's turning the world "blind". The majority of the population is so focused on vengeance instead of living life to its fullest. Euripides', Medea, relates to the wise man's quote because Medea takes revenge to a whole new aspect and takes an eye for an eye. Or maybe a limb for a broken heart. When Medea was left abandoned and heartbroken by her…

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    Catherine de Medici was an Italian-born, French queen who became very powerful and even more controversial during her time at the helm of France. Orphaned as an infant, used as a pawn in her family's vicious power games, saddled with an unfaithful husband, and forced to suffer the untimely deaths of several of her children, Catherine managed to maintain control of the true power of the French throne in an effort to protect her family and preserve her birthright. Her methods of doing so,…

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    These actions are seen through Jason’s selfishness and Medea’s desire towards getting vengeance. Greed is seen through Jason’s desire and needs. One of the main characters in Medea was Medea’s first husband and first love, Jason. He is extremely selfish because based on the actions, he only thinks on how it will benefit him, for example using Medea’s skills to help him and others on completing the quest they assigned to. The mission was to “cross the Black Sea to the distant barbarian land…

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    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 the stranger whom I save set sail without me for another’s bed, leaving Medea to her punishment?” Medea understands that she is…

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    Summary of Revenge “Revenge” is a Television Series produced by Mike Kelley, Marty Bowen, and Wyck Godfrey. Emily Thorne rents back a beach home she was raised in as a child by her father. The home is adjacent to the mansion of an affluential family, the Graysons. Emily is actually Amanda Clarke whose father was framed for treason by the Graysons when she was a kid. Her father was sentenced to life imprisonment after the trial and was murdered in prison by associates of the people that framed…

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