Comparison Of Jason And The Argonauts

these stories the Olympian gods in the stories play important roles that affect the lives of both Jason and Medea. The behaviors of these two character also have a great contrast between them. In the story of “Jason and the Golden Fleece”, Jason is the son of Aeson who is the legitimate king of Iolcus, in Thessaly. Aeson’s half brother Pelias steals the throne away from Aeson making himself the new king of Iolcus. Jason is the rightful heir to the thrown but his father feared for his life and sent him to live with the centaur Cheiron. In time Jason wanted to know of his parents and wanted to reclaim the royal

The original play of Antigone was written 1000s of years ago but, this movie was made in the 1940s during the second world war. The French Government was controlled by Nazis, when showed the play, both the french resistance and the Nazi party loved it. When one analyzes the characters to this situation you find that Creon relates to the Nazi party and Antigone is like the French rebels. Antigone is like the rebels because she is going against the wishes of Creon and wants to give her brother a proper burial and Creon is like the Nazi party because it was his decision to make sure that his nephew got the punishment he deserved even if it meant going against his family values.

Hercules is thought to be one of the world’s greatest hero. There are children’s movies about him, but they all have a happy ending. Hercules, originally born “Heracles” lived a short cruel, yet heroic life. “The 12 Herculean tasks he performed over a period of 12 years have been immortalized in everything from classical poetry to Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.” (French 1). Hercules, in Greek mythology, was a hero known for his strength and courage and for his legendary adventures. Hercules is the Roman name for the Greek hero Heracles. He was the son of the god Zeus and a human mother Alcmene, wife of the Theban general Amphitryon. Hera, Zeus' jealous wife, was determined to kill Hercules, and after Hercules was born, she

Greek mythology has been passed on and retold over generations. Literature and movies have been created to entertain as well as provide specific themes based off of myths. There are many heroes that mythology talks about and each one has lived an epic life, but there is one famous hero that has been immortalized throughout history. Hercules is the son of Zeus and a mortal named Alcmene. Zeus impregnated her while her husband was away and this is where his story began. Zeus' wife, Hera, found out about the affair and was outrageous about his careless actions. She tried to prevent Hercules' birth; however, when that didn't work she sent snakes to kill the baby. Hercules was too mighty for the snakes and strangled them before they could even hurt him. As stated in this source, "Hera remained angry. How could she get even? Hera knew that she would lose in a fight, and that she wasn't powerful enough to prevent Zeus from having his way. Hera decided to pay Zeus back for his infidelity by making the rest of Hercules' life as miserable as she could" (Crane WEB). Hercules grew up to be a great young warrior and was all around. With this god-like strength, also came an uncontrollable temper that made him react at times without thinking, but later made him realize the wrongdoings of his violence. He later then married a woman named Megara and had two beautiful children. But one day, Hera instilled a fit of rage into Hercules and made him slaughter his family with his very own hands. He was shocked by his actions and asked Apollo for assistance since he was drowning in guilt. Apollo later then gave him specific tasks to help Hercules redeem himself for the bloodshed he caused. The hero was sent to Eurystheus, and under his strict hand, he was to accomplish twelve labors over the next twelve years.

A brother lies dead on a battlefield unburied. A culture unknown to a child screams for discovery. Two girls with two different fates will go through difficult trials to accomplish contrasting goals. Antigone and Pai were two young girls who disobeyed respected and authoritative figures. Antigone challenged the King of Thebes’ edict and Pai ignored the chief of her local townspeople’s order. Antigone was sentenced to death while Pai was punished with expulsion of chief in-training activities and scorn from her grandfather. The differences and similarities between Antigone and Pai’s actions and punishments as well as their wrongdoings in their cultures are striking and clear.

As is archetypal to all Greek tragedies, ‘Medea’ by Euripides chronicles the downfall of a noble hero, Jason, as a result of a combination of factors like fate, hubris and the will of the gods. In ‘Medea’, the hubris of the main character, Jason, was his pride. This drove him to betray his wife Medea’s trust and defy moral parameters set by the gods. Euripides employed the hubris of Jason and his act of disobedience towards the gods as a reflection of Athenian society of the time and used this as an attempt to correct the progressively immoral ways of society. This piece focuses on pride as Jason’s hubris and its contribution to his imminent downfall.

Myths consists of many legendary heroes within, but what makes them different from an ordinary person. Many convey that it is not very challenging to be a hero, but wise ones know the struggles of being a hero, which the texts “Theseus” and “The Adventure of Odysseus”, written in the book “Mythology” by Edith Hamilton proves. Heroes may require help from others, but more often than not, they are fearless fighters who do not need the aid of others to be successful. Heroes might easily gain credits for the work of their fellow allies, but that does not mean it is easy to be a hero. A true hero should not be afraid of pain or death just like the great legend Theseus. At the same time, these heroes must be like the extraordinary hero Odysseus, who is successful in his heroic journey.

Hercules was a character portrayed in classic Roman Mythology. He was known to be the son of Zeus, and went on many great adventures throughout the lands; saving lives, defeating villains, and slaying treacherous monsters. Throughout his many trials, he gained fame, fortune, and a place amongst the Gods of Olympia. By looking at the mythological stories of Hercules, we can see that many of Joseph Campbell’s “Stages of the Hero’s Journey” can be applied to the stories about him.

He fought with exceptional strength. He did not give up as the monsters came from all around him. When he was fighting the evil goddess Khione to protect his friends, he lost his spear and resorted to using a wooden plank, “Jason hefted his icy wooden plank—a stupid weapon to die fighting with—and the monsters charged” (Riordan 143). Jason stands against monsters, giants and wolves with only a wooden plank and is still ready to fight. He confronts this battle with absolute bravery and completes the most courageous task to protect his friends. Jason unlocked his inner demigod abilities and faced Porphyrion, the king of giants. “Half flying, half leaping, Jason landed on the giant’s scaly reptilian knee and climbed up the giant’s arm before Porphyrion even realized what had happened” (Riordan 147). Jason finds the courage in him to battle the king of the giants who can only be defeated with the help of a god. Jason fights despite the fact that he is not a god to protect those whom he loves and to free Hera and bring her

Aeetes was used to getting visitors who had come for the fleece, and had devised a test for quickly getting rid of them. He had a standing challenge to give up the fleece to anyone who could tame two fire-breathing bulls and then use them to plow a field with dragon's teeth. Jason was stumped by how to pass this quest and was saved at the last moment by Aeetes own daughter Medea, who gave him a potion of wild herbs that would protect him from the fiery breath of the bulls. With the help, Jason easily tamed the bulls, and began to sow the field, but noticed that where he had put the teeth, soldiers were springing up from the ground. Jason hid from them, most cowardly, but then came up with a plan for getting rid of them. He picked up a huge stone and threw it into the middle of the mass of soldiers, killing one. A quarrel immediately started amongst the soldiers over who had thrown the rock, and a fight broke out, killing all but a few, whom Jason was able to easily overcome. With the help of Medea, Jason was able to steal the fleece from its guardian, a dragon, by putting it to sleep, and escape from Colchis.

In “Jason and the Golden Fleece”, Pelias sends Jason to get the Golden Fleece, an almost unattainable task (Daly “Jason”). Nevertheless, Jason agrees to the task and with the help of two goddesses, Hera and Athena, he builds a ship: the Argo (Daly “Jason”). Jason and his fifty-man crew consisting of Atalanta, Heracles, Orpheus and many others then leave daling into the treacherous waters of the Black Sea (Daly “Jason”). Jason has many impossible tasks ahead of him but with the help of Medea, he is able to master “fire-breathing Bulls with brazen feet” and subdue many warriors (Daly “Jason”). In order to defeat the assailants, he “threw a stone into the midst of the warriors” (Daly “Jason”). Afterwards, Medea directs him to the Golden Fleece where Jason uses his wit and expertise to vanquish the immense and powerful dragon guarding the fleece. After going back out to sea, Jason and Medea, Circe’s niece, arrive on Circe's island for protection (Daly “Jason”). Later, she is informed they murdered her brother, Apsyrtus, in order to escape from king Aeetes. Consequently, she runs them off the island. Gillespie writes, “Circe grants their request: however, the couple does not tell Circe the whole truth about their deeds” (290). Even though Circe does not play a major role in “Jason and the Golden Fleece,” she is still an important piece to

Stubborn (adj.): unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving, or difficult to manage or suppress. The characters Antigone from the play Antigone by Sophocles and Marnie Piper from the movie Halloweentown both show their tragic flaws of stubbornness. Antigone shows her independent personality by going against the Gods and buried her brother as Marnie fought with her mother and snuck away to the mysterious town of Halloweentown. Although Antigone and Marnie’s plots to their stories end differently, they both connect in relation to their tragic flaw.

Jason’s grit to “shun” the “frightening woman” to whom he had married was created from his emotional inability, which then shaped the tragic events that closed the play. Jason’s Apollonian values urged him to secure a “royal marriage”, with fatal consequence. Establishing his deficiency of emotional capacity, his absence or any appearance of a relationship to his “scorned” family is accentuated by his use of the articles “the” and “your [Medea]” to describe the children the pair had shared. Jason is thereby cast by Euripides as the estranged and absent father. His utter lack of any paternal or husbandly instinct enabled him to spurn his family life in favour of a union based on a selfish desire for convenience and status impersonated as altruism

Euripides’ ‘Medea’ is a play based on the myth of Jason and the Argonauts. The play was

The king and queen desired a son, and Jason was born. They noticed that Jason was bigger, better looking, stronger, and more talented than other babies. This, they realized, meant that they had been chosen as the parents of a hero. At this time, Polymede recalled a dream she had had months prior, when Zeus had visited her and had an affair with her. Now she knew that this had been reality, not a dream.