Jason Dohring

did, and the blame is to fall upon Jason. The story of Medea starts off with Jason being sent to steal the Golden Fleece from Medea’s homeland. Through his journey Medea helps him recover the fleece by betraying her family and even having her own brother killed. Medea leaves with Jason and returns to Corinth where they marry and have two sons. Medea is betrayed by Jason when he leaves her for the Princess of Corinth, which in return she releases her rage upon Jason and his new fiancé. By breaking down

this, before Jason, she never experienced being in love. When she finally experienced this type of love she went to no end for Jason. To protect Jason and her love for him she killed the beast guarding the Golden Fleece, she killed her brother, and she left her home, family and everything she knew for him. Most women would not have gone that far for love, especially women during her time; but Medea was not your average woman. All of the things she did for Jason. But start when Jason betray her, all

Loyal Disobedience-A Social Tract of Euripides       In ancient Greece the females were considered to be conniving and deceiving whisperers, and men almost never trusted their wives.  The ideal woman was an obedient and placating wife.  They believed that the female should be strong but still yield to the power of the male in charge, whether it was older brother, father, or husband.  Euripides often used females in uncommon ways; he did not simply show them as complacent animals.  Women in

Artless Both famous heroes from antiquity, Jason and Odysseus have much in common and just as much not. It has been said that The Voyage of the Argo, written centuries past The Odyssey, is an imitation or some form of plagiarism of the primary epic poem of ancient Greece. I like the other train of thought; it is more an acknowledgement or tip of the hat, so to speak, specifically to The Odyssey. Both tales center on a hero and a fantastic voyage. Jason was less the virtuous demi-God we see in Odysseus

Medea . Medea written by Euripides tells the tale of a woman scorn. Medea is set in a city called Corinth. The play starts off in front of Jason and Medea's house. The play is a tragedy that shows the tragic ending of a family. For Medea was betrayed by her husband and exiled from the city. With such a tremendous act of betrayal is Medea a victim of love or is she a villain who has no mercy. Her motive makes her a deceiving victim, for Medea is a villain that is playing the role of a damsel in

parts of life. Poem 870 demonstrates absence and loss as inevitable. The poem is obviously a reference to the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts. The lines "Third, Expedition for / The 'Golden Fleece'" demonstrate this. In this myth Pelias agrees to surrender the throne of Iolkos to Jason if he brings him the Golden Fleece. It is a long dangerous journey, but Jason returns with the fleece. (Haskas) In the poem however, Dickinson is portraying the journey as a continual loss. After the initial

Playwright, Euripides, composes the tragedy, Medea, on the bases of the myth of Jason and Medea in around 400 BC. Medea portrays the position of women within that time period in Greek culture. The Greeks did not see women as equal citizens within the time period of Medea’s composition. The Greek culture considered women as submissive servants, whom did not have a place in politics. Women in that period of history were greatly dependent of their husbands. The author, Euripides, capitalizes on this

She is surrounded by powerful men, but uses her intelligence as her weapon to get what she wants: revenge on Jason, her husband. She shows that physical power may not be the ultimate power that one may have, but that intellectual power can destroy what one may hold close to them. In the play, Kreon, the king of Corinth, holds his children to a higher importance than his country; Jason, Medea’s husband, values his children and their status in society; and Aigeus, shows that having children would

allows a release of emotions. This raises a question of who the tragic hero is in Medea. The tragic hero is thought to be Jason, however there is an argument that he has no realization that his demise is due to his own flaw which does not allow catharsis. In Euripides’ greek play, the audience experiences catharsis as they watch the secondary characters, Medea, Creusa, and Jason and Medea’s sons suffer as a result of Jason’s hamartia; striving for power. These secondary characters experience the

In, J.K Rowling’s Philosopher’s Stone there are a number of references to ancient mythologies. The events, characters and creatures in the story are not purely fictional, most of them relate to ancient mythology embedded in different cultures. According to Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, when people think of mythology, they usually correlate it with Greek mythology. This is illustrated through examples such as the dog Fluffy, the Philosopher’s stone, magic numbers three and seven, and also