Medea Strengths And Weaknesses

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In the play Medea, Jason would be considered to be somewhat of a villain. He is also play the role of the antagonist. The strengths and weaknesses Jason shows are somewhat of any man of his time period. The strength that is displayed would have to be his want for power. He talks about how he is marrying the princess to gain power so that his family to live comfortably and not have to be poor. When Jason was to marry Glauce, that their sons would have a place in society. He was only trying to protect his family, but at the same time he did not plan to hurt Medea as bad as he did.
The weakness Jason displayed was foolishness and selfishness. The foolishness is the way, Medea is able to deceive him so easily. He gets manipulated by Medea into asking Glauce to let his sons stay in Corinth and unknowingly delivering the cursed gifts. The selfishness is he cares more about himself than he does others. He is a shallow man, that although he clams to think of his family when marrying Glauce he first thought of himself as being powerful. …show more content…

She was the women that stood by his side and did anything for him. She lost everything just to be with him because they were in love. Medea felt so much love for this man the she stole and killed her own brother for him. Jason should have considered her feeling when he decided to leave her. I also feel Jason could have saved his children instead of abandon them. He talked about how he was trying to make better lives for them. I feel that abandon them was not the way to do it. When he divorced Medea, not only was she paying for it but the children where as well. The divorce effected them as

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