Madea Enters: Madea speaks about her suffering and the suffering of women. She wishes to be dead, to leave her existence behind so she wont feel the pain she is going through. Then gives a speech about women and how they must let the terrible indignities go. And though men are free to indulge their appetite and enjoy the company of friends. Madea says that women remain in the house and live for their husbands alone. She then speaks of her suffrage, Madea then promises to get vengeance. She has asked the Chorus of the Corinthian women to remain silent; the women agree that she should seek revenge. Creon, King of Corinth enter with attendants: Creon tells Madea that she and her children must leave from Corinth. Madea ask, why, and Creon admits that he scared of her. He tells her that he sees her as a powerful sorceress and is afraid for her daughters well being. Madea begs Creon to let her stay for just one more day, so she can prepare for journey long journey and think of where she will go. Creon believing that in one-day Madea cant harm her enemies, allows her to stay. Creon exits. The chorus speaks and tells her of what she might do? Where will she go? Madea assures the women that 24 hours is all that she needs to destroy Jason, his new bride and Creon. Madea will use the skills she has in the art of poison to destroy them, she is determined that no man will ever wrong her and tell about it. Jason enters: Jason tells Madea that her loose tongue has brought her into exile on herself. Jason tells her that he will make sure she doesn't go penniless and he doesn’t hate her even if she despises him. Madea then lashes and reminds him of all things she has done for him, leaving him without an excuse to take another wife. Jason ar... ... middle of paper ... ... The beginning of the scene in Madea’s house. My favorite character was Madea because she was ruthless in the play, and she gets away with in the end. Madea is some what justified by her anger and to seek revenge, but not enough to kill her own children. Leads in the play: Madea Jason Supporting Players: Creon King of Corinth Aegeus King of Athens Nurse of Madea The Chorus of Women in Corinth The Tutor Stock Characters: Jason new wife The messenger I think that Madea would work best in a Thrust stage as the audience needs to see what is going on during the play. An Example of blocking would be when Madea slays her children. An example of business would when the king hugs the body of his lifeless daughter. I liked the play, because I believe this play was very mature and feminism was one of the themes in that play that was some how accepted.
Even at the end, Jason still does not take blame but rather mock Medea and call her stupid, selfish, unreasonable, and emotional, as she just can't seem to view things his way. Marianne Hopman explains why Medea decided to kill as her plan of revenge. Hopman states that when Medea was talking to Jason before , she put his heroic deeds in jeopardy as it was Medea who did all the heroic stuff and Jason was just there. Hopman says that the reason why Medea killed off the princess was mostly because Medea wanted to save her from the same faith Medea had as she was also a lovestruck princess who fell in love and got married. Another factor that Hopman uses is that her children were the only thing standing in the way of Medea moving on, they were like rocks sinking in her in waters reminding Medea of the life she had with Jason. So it was expected of Medea to kill them as they were the last thing Medea had with Jason since the marriage was over with. The dead family symbolizes the broken and now dead marriage and household that Jason and Medea
This play appeals more to a sophisticated and mature audience because of the clever use of language and brilliant conversation. There was a lot of slang and colloquialism used. Usage of swears was interesting; it is a normal assumption to make that middle class families are not so crass. This was effective because it provided more realism by showing how people would talk in these serious and yet humorous situations.
proper burial rights, was more important than the law of the King. Throughout the play,
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My least favorite aspect of this play was the ending. The ending confused me and was anticlimactic. It was not funny and not entertaining at all.
In conclusion, the gods and the love of her family rule Antigone’s life. Creon’s life is ruled by what he thinks is good for his country and pride. Creon did not change his mind to free Antigone until a prophet told him he would suffer horribly for his actions. However, because Creon was so stubborn for so long and did not take heed to anyone’s advice sooner, he ultimately suffers in the end, as does everyone else in the play. This was all due to a man’s lack of good judgment, his selfish pride and his stubbornness.
Creon's character possesses an infinite number of glitches in his personality, but his excessive pride was the root of his problems. His pride leads him to make accusations, before he considers the wise advice of others. Creon's pride also fills him not just as a king superior to the Gods, but also a man superior to women. The issue of Antigone being condemned to die becomes more than just a person who disobeys Creon; instead, the punishment is given even more eagerly, because it is a woman who disobeys a man. Creon's intelligent son warns Creon the people of Thebes sympathize with Antigone, but Creon accuses Haemon of being a "woman's slave" (line 756). Even though he is suppose to be loyal to the state and her citizens, he defensively questions if "the town [is] to tell [him] how [he] ought to rule?"(Line 734)The Theban king is too prideful to obey even the wisest of prophets, blind Teresias, insisting that "the whole crew of seers are money-mad" (line 1055). Creon finally puts his pride aside and listens to the Chorus' wise advice. It is difficult even then, and he obeys only because he fears the punishment that he might receive. "To yield [for Creon] is terrible" (line 1095) meaning to swallow his pride and admit that he is wrong is a very difficult thing for him to do. When Creon loses his wife and son, Creon's pride disappears, and he admits that he made a terrible mistake by not listening to anyone's advice.
...franchise and alle gentillesse". He releases her from her promise with a legal quitclaim and calls her "the treweste and the beste wyf that evere yet I knew in al my lyf"
With no husband, no country to turn to, and no one she can really depend on for rescue, Medea is trapped by her circumstances. Instead of becoming crushed, however, Medea turns it against those she hate. She attacks the weaknesses in her enemies’ character. Knowing Jason would feel guilty about his abandonment, Medea sent her own children to deliver the poisoned gifts, despite the certain death her children would face being involved in such a plot. Knowing the princess would not resist flashy gifts, she cursed the dress and crown. Knowing the king’s love for his daughter would cause him to rush to her aid, Medea formulated the curse to spread to those who touched the daughter as well. As each facet of her plan had to be executed perfectly to succeed, Medea demonstrated the full potential of her capabilities. She proves that when a society completely scorns and devalues women, everyone will pay as women are incredibly strong.
Medea?s thirst for revenge begins when she finds out about her husbands unfaithfulness. Medea?s husband Jason decides to marry the princess Glauce to establish a position of power in Corinth. Jason claims he did it so Medea and their two sons could have better lives. Jason fails to tell Medea of his plans. Medea, who has committed her life to Jason, is enraged when she finds out. Rather than accept Jason?s betrayal and her own humiliation, she vows revenge.
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Medea has just killed four people which are Creon the king of Corinth, the princess whom Jason is in love with, and her two little children. Jason then prays to gods, especially Zeus, father of all gods, to punish Medea for her crimes. From the context of the quote, the chorus is addressing the audience about the unexpected and unbelievable end of the play. Medea then gets away to Athens with a chariot lent to her by Helios, the sun god and her grandfather.
Medea and Salome both have a tragic love indifferent ways which cause them to begin their revenge. In Medea, Medea was betrayed by her husband--Jason, so she choose revenge Jason by making him childless and poison the princess who he is going to marry with. “I will send them to her, bearing gifts in hand -a silicate robe [...]who touched her, will die a painful death.
Medea’s sentiments control her actions throughout this tragedy. If the reader has never experienced a heartbreak, one will now feel the exact same “hurt where affection runs deepest” as Medea. Jason’s deception sparked “fierce”, “anger,” and “rage” in Medea. Her passion for Jason soon transformed into hatred. Medea emotions were contradicting because Jason caused the “deepest wound.” The only way to hurt Jason like he hurt her was to kill the royal family and to kill their sons. This revenge was bitter tasting. It was bitter because her kids suffered at the hands of someone who was to care and love them. Imagined how much pain and heartache a mother had to suffer to kill her own born. She killed her sons for two reasons: one, she knew the only way to ensure that Jason’s legacy never continues is if she did the impeccable and for two so people will not wish death upon her sons. Medea pride and emotions caused her to commit those acts. She knew she had stopped a line of Jason’s from doing what he did to her to anyone
She is abused, unappreciated, and miserable, but she endures because she has no other options. After six miscarriages, Rasheed has an even shorter temper than before, especially because he was hoping so badly for another son to have all the experiences he never got to have with his deceased son. After dinner and complaining that Mariam's food she prepared was subpar, a nightly ritual, Rasheed storms over to her and forces her to chew pebbles. "Soon, Rasheed returns with a handful of pebbles and forces Mariam’s mouth open and stuffs them in. He then orders her to chew the pebbles. In her fear, she does as he asks, breaking the molars in the back of her mouth. He tells her, “Now you know what your rice tastes like. Now you know what you’ve given me in this marriage. Bad food, and nothing