Medea

Medea: Mental Illness & Free-will Euripides Medea is a classic tale of revenge, as a helpless woman named Medea avenges her husband’s betrayal. Medea contains several elements of a Greek tragedy, such as fate and revenge. Medea, the main character of the play, commits several villainous acts that are “outside of the norm” and forbidden by society. She is a woman who kills her husband’s second wife and also kills her children just to avenge her husband’s betrayal. Her willingness to commit these…

causes the play as a whole to become a tragedy. The play Medea is no different. To prevent the tragic figure, Medea, a witch, from cursing the city of Greece and her sons are about to be exiled because her husband, Jason, has found a younger and more powerful woman, the daughter of King Creon. Like most women, Medea panics and is out to seek revenge on those who want to banish her, thus making the play a full blown tragedy. Medea, furious with the fate the city of Greece has brought…

Medea is an Ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides about a woman that does not focus on women’s rights, but women’s wrongs. These wrongs are not necessarily done by Medea but also done unto Medea by Jason and Creon. Euripides, in writing this tragedy, specifically points out social injustices that, in his opinion, were important during that time period. While Medea could just be crazy, injustices within Ancient Greek society are specifically highlighted by Euripides because he could see the…

Euripides's Medea is 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…

concerning Medea, with Jason as the tragic hero, reader’s come to the conclusion that Jason is the cause of this cause and effect situation of death that durates the story. In Euripides’ Medea readers sympathize with Medea and her mental deterioration initiated and accelerated by Jason’s greed, acts of misogyny, and dehumanization towards Medea which, in turn, spreads tragedy and brings suffering to the community. One can either find Medea or Jason to be the tragic hero of this tale. While…

Medea is one of the best known tragedy playwrights till today. There are two versions written in two different periods by two different writers: Euripides and Seneca. Despite the play been written by two different authors, the background of the story and the plot remained consistent. The main difference is that these two authors approached the ending from a different perspectives. While Euripides approached the ending providing philosophical aspects of human characteristics, Seneca approached…

elicited a preconceived conviction by the Greek that any individual who did not come from Greece was in fact barbaric. Xenophobia in the play Medea is connected to the way the main characters view love.…

Euripides infacnticdal re-imaging od the Medea myth continues to arouse controversy more than a millennia since it was penned in the fifth BC. A key reason it does so is because of the way in which Euripides challenges and offends what are still, even in the 21st century, traditional notions of motherhood. Jason has an inability to comprehend the actions that he does will affect those around him. Medea’s passion for vengeance on those that have mistreated her is a greater driving force then…

In “Medea”, Euripides uses character to develop the theme of marriage. Set in Corinth, the city-state of Athens, Greece, the reader is given a depiction of how a lopsided marriage proved to have disastrous consequences. Medea, a woman of higher class, has “her heart on fire with passionate love for Jason” (1). She is too eager and impulsive that she willingly sacrifices everything, including her family and homeland, in order to be with him. Medea’s marriage with Jason would become secure when…

We share a common trait and that is we are both protective older siblings. I am the oldest of three. I have a younger sister and a brother. I would not want either of them to marry someone like Jason. I would have to agree with you on the fact that Medea was into Jason more than Jason was into her, she should not have devoted as much time as she did on him, then again she didn't think he would break there promise and be as deceitful as he was. As for Theseus I understand where your coming from…