Similarities Between Jason And Odysseus

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

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.

Jason’s innate desire for self-fulfillment included leaving his wife and children to marry the princess so he could be ranked higher. After the father realized his doings and how it affected his life from there on out he tried to fix it. Time was no longer on his side medea already plotted the revenge plan. Depression and madness struck jason.

The major trait that leads to Jason’s downfall is his overwhelming pride. Medea knows she can use his ego against him and says, “I have reproached myself. ‘Fool’, I said, ‘why am I so mad?’” (p.53). Medea toys with Jason’s need to be above others and always right. Jason doesn’t even think twice about Medea’s sudden change to a servile attitude and accepts how her “mind has turned to better reasoning” (p.54). The arrogance of Jason makes him blind to what is happening around him. Medea is obviously manipulating this weakness to work to her just like how everything works for her: the children work to kill the bride and the deaths work to exact revenge upon Jason.

In addition to providing for his children, Jason also does complete the role of the protector. When Medea goes on her serial killing spree, Jason only knows that she has killed his new wife. Thus, Jason immediately thinks of his children and arrive as the palace “so [that he may] save the lives / Of [his] boys, in case the royal house should harm them / While taking vengeance for their mother’s wicked deed” (Euripides 391). He knows that the royal family of Corinth might see his sons and want to kill them because they are related to Medea; therefore, Jason wishes to whisk them away to safety before he loses them as well. However, he soon discovers Medea has also killed their sons, and he is absolutely stricken with grief. He mourns for “the boys whom [he] begot and brought up” and questions Medea on how she could have stomached such an unforgivable and sordid deed (Euripides 391). After many accusations from Medea, Jason then begs to see the sons’ dead bodies so that he may burry and mourn them, but Medea “prevents [him] from / Touching their bodies or giving them burial” (Euripides 393). Jason, left without a chance to mourn for the loss of his children, leaves Medea as she blames him for the deaths of their children.

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

Medea states, “Love is diseased. For, deserting his own children and my mistress, Jason has taken a royal wife to his bed. The daughter of the ruler of this land, Creon.” (Euripides, 1.16-1.19) Jason was given the opportunity to rule with the cost of losing his family and exiling them and he took it.

A hero is a bright light in a dark place that stands on the darkness, they are a spec of hope in place that is full of misery. By basic definition a hero is a person that is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements, and their noble qualities. Two people may have earned such title are Odysseus, from Homer’s book The Odyssey and by Brandon Mull character Jason Walker. While Odysseus may be a awesome hero, it is clear that Jason Walker is more deserving of that title.

She died saving him and he's the only one who can save her. In Hercules, he goes from zero to hero. He goes from a dorky kid that everyone avoids to a hero, a son of a God. He finally finds where he belongs and feels like he has a purpose.

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.

There are also parts in the play where one may begin to have an understanding of Jason’s motives. In Jason’s first argumentative speech to Medea, he claims that money, possessions and social status is of no importance to him. He declares that his choice to marry the royal Glauce is of good intention, not merely because he is bored with Medea’s bed. Later, when Medea begs Jason to forgive her for her foolishness, he shows kindness and understanding towards her. After all that Medea said about him and his new wife-to-be, Glauce, he states that he is still willing to provide Medea and their sons with anything they may need. Medea pleads for Jason to convince Creon to let their sons stay in Corinth and Jason agrees to try to convince both Creon and Glauce to allow the boys to stay. Jason is still compassionate, showing at least some loyalty to Medea and his family. At the very end of the play, after Medea has killed Glauce, Creon and their two sons, Jason admits that she has ‘destroyed’ him. Jason is completely shattered; everything has been ripped away from him. It’s also unfair when Medea refuses to let Jason bury and mourn the bodies of their sons. Some may feel it is impossible to feel no sympathy for him.

Because of Medea's tragic flaw, she kills the princess, the king, and her two sons. Her tragic flaw is what drove her to do all of these things. As I said before, I agree that Jason is a tragic hero, I believe that Medea is more suitable for the

Athena because she tipped Jason off on how Medusas eye can turn anything it sees into stone and she helped him locate the beast. Medea was the daughter of Aetes who could use powers on her will, fell in love with Jason who then helped Jason and his group escape the labyrinth with string. Also Hermes who served as another messenger, hermes was a God of delivery which means that he can run at incredible speeds. These are a few (of the many) examples of Gods that helped and saved Jason on his fearless

The quest of the golden fleece was very popular in the classic days; Jason is known as the first hero in Europe who undertook a great task (Hamilton 158). The legend tells that the king of Iolcus’s young son, Jason had been sent away, and later, as a grown man decided to go back and claim his dad’s kingdom (Hamilton 160). Arrived at King Pelias’s kingdom, Jason and the argonauts refreshed themselves and ate; later on the king asked them who they were and what they wanted, and with gentle words, Jason then answered his questions and claimed his kingdom (Hamilton 162). The king then refused stating, “If I am to give you the kingdom, you must first bring me the fleece of the golden ram”(BBC 1). The idea of an exciting adventure was delightful to Jason, he immediately accepted the challenge and left with a very powerful team, and with him, came along a lot of different greek Gods to help him through this journey (Hamilton 162-3). Lemnos, was their first stop; later Jason met Phineus, who prophesied that Jason would be the first sailor to navigate through the “rocks” (Jason and the golden fleece BBC 1). As the story continues with the Argonauts, they finally reached the land of Colchis (Jason and the golden fleece BBC 1). Upon arrival, Jason asked the king, Aietes to give him the golden fleece, to which he accepted only if Jason would be able to perform a series of superhuman tasks (Jason and the golden fleece BBC 1). The King then organized a