Is Jason Still Relevant Today

Once he began manipulating Medea, this made him realize, that he can manipulate anyone he chooses to. After he had captured the Golden Fleece, he abandoned Medea and married the princess of Corinth hoping to stable his wealth and gain more power. He, in turn, manipulated the royal family only to have the consistent power he needed and desired. This had then begun to escalate. Jason is now displaying a pattern of his manipulation. As Jason begins to free himself from his “evil” ex-wife, Jason manipulates the past into a lie and much bigger problem from his side of the story. His dishonesty makes his side of the story more believable and by doing so, his manipulation skills had become more deceivable. Jason is in denial of the many things Medea had done for him and when he told his story, he used omission in order to deceive his listeners. Jason then says, “Dark threats cast out against the majesties/ of Corinth, count as veriest gain thy path of exile.” (27). He then blames Medea and having Creon ban her from Corinth.

In Medea, a play by Euripides, Jason possesses many traits that lead to his downfall. After Medea assists Jason in his quest to get the Golden Fleece, killing her brother and disgracing her father and her native land in the process, Jason finds a new bride despite swearing an oath of fidelity to Medea. Medea is devastated when she finds out that Jason left her for another woman after two children and now wants to banish her. Medea plots revenge on Jason after he gives her one day to leave. Medea later acts peculiarly as a subservient woman to Jason who is oblivious to the evil that will be unleashed and lets the children remain in Corinth. The children later deliver a poisoned gown to Jason’s new bride that also kills the King of Corinth.

On the contrary, the Heissan returned a malevolent spirit while Jason never really died in the beginning. While the Heissan has one personality, not the same can be said about Jason: " Jason developed a second personality. While Jason was a scared, lonely little boy, this other self, which I will call The Mask for simplicity’s sake, was a more assertive, aggressive individual, fearless in the face of any hardship or opponent. When Jason put The Mask on, he wasn’t a little boy any more. He was someone strong, someone powerful, not only capable of surviving, but thriving in the wilderness surrounding Camp Crystal Lake." (Bloodsprayer – psychology behind Jason) When he goes into his innocent personality, Jason becomes a lot more clumsy and not as well formed as his other half. In conclusion, the Headless Horseman can be compared to many movie and book villains, mostly the killers of the pop

A great amount of dishonesty had played a part on the way of Jason and Odysseus’ adventures. In Edith Hamilton’s book, Jason showed dishonesty by taking all the glory when many people helped along the way, “All that she did evil and of good was done for him alone, and in the end, all the reward she got was that he turned traitor to her” (Hamilton 133). Jason wasn’t very honest to Medea,

He decides to remarry the king’s daughter. Medea is furious and she decides to plot revenge. We see here that Jason’s plan is to marry for himself to advance in society and that seemed like a good idea at first but then his plan backfired. In the interest of advancement he gets many people killed even of his own blood. This story is similar to the story of Actaeon. In the Actaeon story he decides to go on a little walk and sees Diana naked. After she is mad and turns him into a deer. His hunting dogs can’t tell it's him and they kill him. Here we see that Acteon thought it was a good idea to take a rest and to take the walk and to see Diana but his plan backfired and he was killed. In both stories both men thought that their intentions were good but in the end their plans don't work

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

, In the beginning, Jason was a horrible person only cared about money and expects everything to be handed to him. When his rich billionaire grandfather died his whole family went to get their inheritance but Jason was the only one who had to work for his inheritance but he was given a box. Nowadays kids that grow up rich, expect thing to be handed to them and don't understand the true meaning for hard work. This fits redemption because Jason's grandfather made him work for his inheritance because he wanted to change Jason in to a good

When asked by Jason for the “sovereign sceptre and the throne”, Pelias replied that Jason must first bring back the Fleece, to bring back with it the spirit of his dead cousin Phrixus to his home, either unaware or uncaring that Phrixus was actually now married to a daughter of King Aeetes.

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

In Medea, by Euripides, the two main characters Jason and Media are forced to leave Lolkos and have taken refuge in Corinth. Jason has the possibility of establishing a position of standing in the community by marrying King Creon’s daughter. Medea is enraged by Jason’s betrayal of her and their two children and she vows to stop the marriage and exact revenge. In the play, Medea and Jason are set up as foils. Medea is completely dependent on the dominance of passion over reason. She is depicted as conniving, brilliant and powerful. In contrast, Jason is portrayed as a a character of little feeling; he is passionless, obtuse, witless, and weak.

King Athamas grew tired of his wife Nephele and remarried to princess Ino. Ino schemed to kill Nephele’s son Phrixus for his inheritance by forcing him into self-sacrifice, so Nephele prayed for help. Phrixus escaped with a golden fleece, involved in Phrixus’s sacrifice, and Phrixus gifted it to King Aetes. Back in Greece, Phrixus’s uncle lost his power to his nephew Pelias, but the uncle’s son Jason planned to recover the throne. Phrixus agreed to give up power to Jason if Jason managed to retrieve the golden fleece in order to bring Phrixus’s spirit home. Jason agreed and set sail on the Argo with a band of heroes. They faced trials as they traveled to Corinth and the golden fleece. In Corinth, King Aetes agreed to give up the fleece if Jason completed a challenge of yoking two fire-breathing bulls, sowing a field, and fighting off marauders. The magical daughter of Aetes, Medea, gave Jason an ointment of invincibility. Jason finished the task and promised to marry Medea. Once he became king, Jason remarried and betrayed Medea. In retaliation, Medea killed Jason’s new wife and Medea’s two sons to save them from a difficult life.

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

His peripeteia occurs when Medea curses the royal family of Corinth in a rage of passion, reversing his upward rise to power. To further Jason’s suffering, Medea poisons Glauce and Creon and kills Jason’s children. This incident leaves Jason with nothing: he has no power, no bloodline, and the citizens of Corinth, his would-be subjects, sympathize with Medea and hate Jason. Jason loses all traces to any sort of home or family, he suffers because there is no “greater grief than the loss of one’s native land.” Medea leaves Jason with a final blow to his happiness – the knowledge of his own death. “For thee, behold, death draweth on, / Evil and lonely, like thine heart:, the hands / Of thine old Argo, rotting where she stands, / Shall smite thine head in twain.” (77 – 78) With this revelation, Jason is left with nothing but hopelessness and misery.

Man’s moral nature of good is also shown in the story of Medea and Jason, but in a twisted way. At the time, Jason thought leaving Medea