------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Click a flag for a translation: Bottom of Form This is the title of a poem by Apollonius of Rhodes who lived in the third-century AD. The poem deals with a Greek king, Athamas and his two wives. His first wife, Nephele was afraid of her two children (especially Phrixus, one of the two children) being killed by Ino, the soon-to-be second wife. Nephele, herself, was killed by the king, and Athamas subsequently married
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because of that one person. Euripides, the author of the Medea, sets the tone of Jason to be a cheating husband in the play. Medea, Jason’s wife, has to live with him while he goes out sleeping with another woman and planning a wedding with her. Readers, throughout the play, view Jason as a cruel husband while, at the same time, they feel sympathy towards Medea. The way Medea is treated makes her want to get revenge against Jason, and throughout the play the true reasons and means for which she exacts her
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In Medea, Euripides makes a point to show how atrocious marriage can be and in this play it is depicted as one of the biggest marriage betrayal. While Jason reveals another wife and leaves Meda abaft in rage, she plots an ostentatious revenge plan. In this is play we bring attention to how the Greeks illustrate marriage and how Jason legitimately was not devoted to Medea and their marriage. Euripides in this story, notably focuses on how ancient Greeks view marriage. Throughout this story there
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story of Jason and the Golden Fleece, otherwise known as Jason and the Argonauts, is known as one of the oldest myths concerning a hero and his quest. The basis of the story is that Jason’s father is killed by his uncle Pelias, and in order to reclaim the throne that is rightfully his, Jason is asked to seek out an item that Pelias believes will never be found. In the end, Jason is able to recover the Fleece, but at the cost of a promise he made to a sorceress. The sorceress, Medea, helped Jason to defeat
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Upon Jason and Medea’s encounter, Medea attempts to manipulate Jason, though communicating her grievances in an impassioned manner. Medea implores, “All this I have done for you and yet you have betrayed me, you unfeeling monster…”Ah, my poor hand, that you many times would take in yours
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which the narrator illustrates with his use of allegorical characters and challenges these social structures by voicing them out loud. This idea of the exterior versus the interior is also found in Euripides’ Medea, which I related to Guillaume. When Jason betrayed Medea by marring Creon’s daughter, Medea finally perceived Jason’s true nature, which he had concealed to her, but were revealed by his pursue of power and his oath-breaking deeds. In lines 516-519 Medea asks the heavens the following: “O
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Medea her husband Jason is no different. Medea did everything she could to make sure that Jason was safe and got what he wanted in life. She betrayed her own family for Jason, killing her brother and taking the Golden Fleece. Now Jason has betrayed her by leaving her and their two sons for princess Glauce and king Creon of Corinth. As anyone would, be she is upset and decides to make a plan to hurt Jason as greatly as she can. Throughout her plan she has three conversations with Jason. Medea’s conversation
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Actor 2 will play Creon. When Medea and Jason share their scene for the first time, Actor 2 will play Medea, since this is a slightly different Medea because this Medea has a sharp tongue and is quick to bitterly curse Jason. Jason can be played by Actor 1. For the scene with Aegeus and Medea, Actor 3 will return to play Medea since this Medea is the type that kneels (the same way she kneels in front of Creon) and asks for help. Actor 1 can play Aegeus. When Jason and Medea speak for the second time
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are very important to Medea, and actually form the basis of the play. When Medea helped Jason with the trials of the Golden Fleece, and even turned against her own father, King Aeëtes, to help him; Jason vowed to always protect her and stay with her. However he broke these vows by marrying Glauce, which angered Medea the most and caused her to carry out her actions within the play. It was not the fact that Jason left her, which upset Medea the most, but more the idea that he broke these oaths. The
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described as being scorned by her husband Jason and left to take care of their two children on her own. Though she is to be exiled from Corinth, her home, she is given one day to gather herself before she must leave. In this time, she begins to plot revenge against Jason who has left her to marry another woman for his own personal success. Not only does Medea want to murder her husband, but also Creon, the king, and his daughter Glauce who will soon be married to Jason. Eventually, Medea decides to poison
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