Jason Dohring

Agamemnon by Aeschylus, Antigone by Sophocles, and Medea by Euripides are all well-written plays highlighting the tragic tales of three women scorned. Exposing all their flaws along the way, Clytemnestra, Antigone, and Medea let their untamed emotions build their paths that shines some light on the true nature of their relationships with the people around them and society in general in the hopes that their heightened emotions will help fix all of their troubles. Some fail to realize that there are

Medea, foreign bride to Jason of the Argonauts fame, is troubled by the ethnocentric marriage customs of the Greeks in which marriage is seen as an institution for heirs. As a foreigner in Corinth, Medea is already faced with judgment from native Greeks. Medea’s history of crimes such as, the death of her father by chopping him into pieces reveals her capabilities and more importantly her abandonment by her husband Jason reveals the culture of male supremacy. Because of this, Medea attempts to gain

emotions as if they were seeing it in real life. Medea seems in this play as a person who felt in love with the wrong person and who brought her misery. According to this review, Jason in this play is portrayed as selfish man and his betrayal to Medea goes well for his own vengeance that lastly destroys him. By placing Jason as person who is very selfish and only care for his own wellbeing its set a turning point on why Medea took

Medea plans to kill her children instead of Jason. The main reason being that, by killing the children, it will cause Jason eternal pain. Medea’s position of citizenship also affects her emotional state and actions. Medea is an immigrant. She speaks on how she tried to blend in to this “strange Greek society” (7) and failed. I feel it is because of this failed effort that Medea finally understands that she is a foreigner—and also unwelcomed—and has no home to return to. It is for this reason I believe

The text “The Infanticide in Euripides’ Medea” by P.E. Easterling summarizes the events in the play focusing on how the betrayed love for Jason turned Medea’s expertise and intellectual power into a destructive power, thus killing her own children. The article’s main focus is on how Euripides has both justified and the reprimanded murder of children by Medea. Beginning the article by describing that only a madwomen would commit such a crime, the writer moves on to somewhat justify Medea’s actions

Euripides infanticidal re-imagining of the Medea myth continues to arouse controversy more than a millennia since it was penned in the fifth century 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. As such, Euripides infuses his work with a great deal of ambiguity about Medea’s tragic downfall. Medea finds herself with extraordinary amounts of power coming about from not tolerating

husband Jason has abandoned her for another woman now that she has finished helping him find the Golden Fleece. By helping him, Medea can never return to her family and is forced to follow Jason until she decides that she has had enough and rebels. I believe that since Medea’s action were in retaliation for the humiliation and pain caused by her husband, and she clearly showed remorse at various points she is a victim. Looking back to the time of the search for the Golden Fleece, Medea and Jason were

Medea: a classical tragedy In the greek drama Medea, by Euripides, Jason; Medea’s deceitful husband, decides to marry King Creon’s daughter. Jason claims that his decision to remarry is the best decision for his sons and Medea. His decision resulted in the tragic deaths of King Creon, his future wife, and his two sons. Medea is a classic greek play because it contains the following unities required for a classic: one setting, one day, and one central conflict. Made takes place in one setting

sorcery, and necromancy), vengeance, and crossroads. She has been worshiped by many throughout the years, including Medea in the play The Medea by Euripides. Medea, much like her patron, is an outsider (Jason brought her from Colchis to Corinth), a sorceress (as she used various magics to aid Jason as he stole the Golden Fleece), and vengeful. While not a goddess of crossroads, she faces complex choices of which the outcome impacts nations and which change her perspective drastically as the play progresses

Medea is unwilling to compromise the revenge she desires to inflict on Jason, regardless of the suffering she will face in return. Although Medea is ruthless in her actions, she also displays some compassion for her children while describing her plan to hurt Jason(25, 768). By the end of the play, Medea kills her children, this is due to her unwavering desire to inflict suffering on Jason in revenge. Her desire to hurt Jason is fulfilled but at a cost; by killing her children medea inflicts inflicts