The story, Medea, was a Greek tragedy that showed the cruelty and pain that Medea had faced ever since she met Jason. She did everything right, even helped him survived a couple of times. After being exiled along with Jason, they went to Corinth. The audience is able to see how each characters are portrayed differently in the story. In the different conversations that Medea has with Creon and Jason, we discovered different things about each character. In the conversation between Medea and Creon, the audience learns how Medea was seen by Creon and the people of the village. Creon saw Medea as a threat to his and his families’ safety because of what Jason did to her. In addition, the audience learns that when Medea was angry, she couldn’t be …show more content…
He showed his weakness by making the following statement, “I’m afraid of you,” (288). My impression is that Creon was weak by being afraid of Medea considering he was a king. In addition, I feel he showed too much compassion by exiling Medea instead of killing her. The problem I had with his action was that Medea had done nothing wrong, yet she was being punished for Jason’s actions. Even after Medea told him, “I don’t have it in me to do wrong to a man with royal power,” (314-15), Creon showed weak authority by complying with Medea’s request to stay one more day rather than sending her away immediately. In conclusion, the audience discovers that Creon was a weak leader who was not willing to use his authority, even when he had an imminent threat like Medea …show more content…
My impression of Jason is that he was a selfish man that only sought glory and a good life for himself. In other words, I feel he was not a real man for not trying to save his children or his wife, who had done everything right. Although he did offer some financial assistance, the reality was that he was just trying to show courtesy and didn’t care about them or felt any remorse for what he did to them. Jason expressed his feelings about his family by saying, “You are now an exile because of your own foolish words. To me it makes no difference,” (453-455). By stating that, Jason showed the man he really was by being greedy. The audience is able to see Jason for what he truly was at the beginning of his conversation with
Medea was wronged by Jason, she was a loyal wife and mother who was betrayed by her husband and reacted in a way...
Medea unlike the other two females was a murderer. She murdered her own brother, Jason's wife, Kreon, and her own children. She was also a sorcerer who used her power mostly for evil.
As with Medea and Jason, the battle between the two lead to former's madness, leading to the death of the enemies she considered, and, unfortunately, leading as well to the death of her own children. Medea felt betrayed and left behind by her husband Jason, as well as continuously aggravated by Creon despite the fact that it was she who was in a disadvantaged position.
Because of Jason, Medea lost everything, her family, her kingdom, and him. Before traveling to Corinth, Jason was in search of something called the Golden Fleece and Medea had fallen for him. In fact, she fell so hard for him that she would do anything and everything to help him and win his love. However, she took it too far to the point where she willingly killed bother her father and brother just to help Jason. Jason knew that because of Medea's insanity she was left with nothing, making him become her everything.
In Medea, Creon, afraid of Medea’s wrath, arrives and plans to send her and her children into exile. Medea not willing to give up her desire for revenge, she is able to plead Creon to delay the exile by a day. She convinces Creon that she has no grudge against his family and that her husband is the one she hates. She also uses Creon’s position as King to convince that there is no way a person like herself can offend a noble of his position. “It’s my husband I hate. / You’ve acted sensibly; I won't stand in your way.” (Medea 318) This quote has a few half truth while Medea hates her husband, she also hates Creon’s daughter for taking him away. It also shows that Medea is very cleaver able to use people’s rankings to give them a sense of confidence that nothing will
In Medea, a play by Euripides, Jason possesses many traits that lead to his downfall. After Medea assists Jason in his quest to get the Golden Fleece, killing her brother and disgracing her father and her native land in the process, Jason finds a new bride despite swearing an oath of fidelity to Medea. Medea is devastated when she finds out that Jason left her for another woman after two children and now wants to banish her. Medea plots revenge on Jason after he gives her one day to leave. Medea later acts peculiarly as a subservient woman to Jason who is oblivious to the evil that will be unleashed and lets the children remain in Corinth. The children later deliver a poisoned gown to Jason’s new bride that also kills the King of Corinth. Medea then kills the children. Later, she refuses to let Jason bury the bodies or say goodbye to the dead children he now loves so dearly. Jason is cursed with many catastrophic flaws that lead to his downfall and that of others around him.
The stories characters, Medea and Jason, can be seen as representations of two different responses to life. For hundreds of years, society has judged each others actions and reactions based on just cause. This story, to me, has a type of underlying theme that drags the reader into a moral debate, which forces you to really question your own belief system.
The gods cause Creon's destruction, acting in a just and logical way to the blasphemous deeds he committed. His destruction is very much in his own hands, despite the many warnings he receives from advisors such as Tiresias ("you have no business with the dead"), Haemon ("I see my father offending justice - wrong") and the Chorus ("could this possibly the work of the gods?" "good advice, Creon, take it now, you must"). He drives head long into it, ignoring those who counsel him. His inability to listen to others is very critical to his downfall, as we see in his rebukes to the Sentry for example ("Still talking? You talk too much!"). This is a fundamental weakness within his character. His stubbornness, as Tiresias, "brands you for stupidity". What appears in Creon's own eyes to be stern control ove...
The problem set at the beginning of the play is that Jason has decided to marry another wife, Glauce. Medea is angered and will not let Jason off without punishment. The loss of Jason is not only a matter of passion; Medea has been completely humiliated by Jason's decision to take a new bride. Her pride shows again when she refuses Jason's aid. Though her situation is difficult, she would rather destroy all than accept help from one who has wronged her so horribly. Living as a barbarian among Greeks has made her more defensive, more full of hurt pride. To punish Jason, Medea had her children deliver poisoned gifts to the new bride, to kill her children, Glauce, and Creon. . Medea is not without feeling, nor is she a sociopath. She comprehends the difference between right and wrong, but chooses to follow the dictates of rage.
In the second act of Medea, King Creon comes to Medea telling her that she has been banished from his kingdom, citing that she is angry at her husband and he fears for his family; “You, sullen and angry at your husband…I’m afraid of you…afraid you’ll hurt my family irrepa...
In The Medea, Medea gives up her home, murdered her brother and tossed the pieces of his corpse and betrays her family to escape with her lover Jason. Against her father's wishes she helps Jason recover the Golden Fleece. Afterwards, Medea and Jason fall in love, get married and Medea gives birth and raises two sons. Unfortunately, Jason abandons Medea and marries King Creon's beautiful daughter. Medea alternates her role from a lover and partner in crime to an obsessive prideful monster. Me...
In the classical age, women were expected to be meek and powerless creatures, and when they were not they were usually considered to be hysterical. Medea’s strength is portrayed as her madness as she takes control and decides the fate of her enemies. Medea breaks that rule in the manifestation of the madness that poisons her mind. Medea has left everything to be with Jason, she has even gone as far as forsaking her father and murdering her brother in order to leave with Jason, “Oh, my father! Oh my country! In what dishonor / I left you, killing my own brother for it” (164-65). This perhaps should have been a red flag for Jason in realizing how she killed her own flesh and blood and should have been an indicator for the evil that resided within her. Medea is in Jason’s turf and here she is considered a foreigner, she now defines herself via her marriage to Jason. Ultimately, when she loses him to a younger bride, she also loses her ability to be rational in her thinking. Euripides allows Medea to have a voice, and thus, gives insight into how what is happening affects her psyche.
Medea’s illegitimate marriage and the betrayal of Jason drive Medea to extreme revenge. Medea chooses to act with her immortal self and commit inhumane acts of murder rather than rationalize the outcomes of her actions. Medea see’s this option as her only resort as she has been banished and has nowhere to go, “stripped of her place”. To create sympathy for Medea, Euripides plays down Medea’s supernatural powers until the end of the play. Throughout the play Medea represents all characteristics found in individual women put together, including; love, passion, betrayal and revenge. Medea’s portrayal of human flaws creates empathetic emotions from the audience. The audience commiserates with Medea’s human flaws as they recognize them in themselves. Medea plays the major role in this play as she demonstrates many behavioral and psychological patterns unlike any of the other Greek women in the play; this draws the audience’s attention to Medea for sympathy and respect.
Medea is a tragedy of a woman who feels that her husband has betrayed her with another woman and the jealousy that consumes her. She is the protagonist who arouses sympathy and admiration because of how her desperate situation is. I thought I was going to feel sorry for Medea, but that quickly changed as soon as I saw her true colors. I understand that her emotions were all over the place. First, she was angry, then cold and conniving. The lower she sinks the more terrible revenge she wants to reap on Jason.
When Medea Jason discovers Jason’s plans to marry Creon’s daughter she was hurt deeply. But when Creon tells her that she was being exiled we see her hurt turn into vengeance. Because Medea was a manipulative person she was only needed one day to plan and execute her plan to destroy Jason.