The ending of Medea to the story of Jove and Io are similar and different in many ways. Medea rode off into the sunset on the chariot by the gods, and Io was turned into a cow, but later restored to her. One wanted to leave; the other had no choice but to morph into an animal. The stories intertwine at some points that will be discussed, and others that are very different.
Medea was married to Jason and had two kids with him, while she thought her world was everything she could possibly want, it didn’t exactly turn out perfect. Jason was put under a spell to fall in love with Medea so she would help him conclude his journey and kill for the golden flees, which he succeeds in. When he returned he had already found a bride besides Medea, and that time it was perfectly normal to marry another bride. Medea sought revenge by killing her two children and his bride to be, so she left Jason with nothing. Medea then at the end rode off into the sunset on a chariot by the gods.
The story of Jove and Io was about a young man who was married to Juno but was having an affair with Io. Juno found out that Jove and Io were having an affair and when she finds out she goes searching for Jove and Europa. When Jove finds out that she is coming, he turns Io into a cow so that Juno won’t hurt her. She comes down and asks him where the heifer had come out of, and where from; he then replied saying that it had come out of the earth and was born. When Juno didn’t believe the story he just told, she asks for the cow as a gift, as hesitate as he was, Jove accepted and gave her the cow.
Juno then sought revenge by sending off Io to Argus, “the watchman with a thousand eyes, in strict rotation, his eyes slept in pairs, while those that were not sleepi...
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Medea has a conversation with Jason at the end of the story he tells her that he hoped the children who bring down curses on her; she looks at him and says “the gods know who the author of this sorrow.” (Lawall 719) Medea killed his children and yet she’s blaming him for her doing it. The conversation just got uglier and ended with her leaving.
The endings are a little similar in the fact that Io was turned back into a human and was rejoiced with her fellow people and welcomed a son of Jove. Medea was sent off in a chariot by the gods no questions ask of what she did. Medea was not a happy ending but for her sake she did have an easy time leaving Corinth, Jason was left with nothing. Medea, Juno and Io were both interesting stories to read because the reader gets to read about betrayal, lose, and a resolution for most people in the story.
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Medea is a play from Classical Greek Mythology that was written as a play by Euripides in 4th century BC. The story has been derived from a collection of many of the takes that were being passed on through oral tradition. The audience that was coming to see the play were already familiar with the story and its characters. The play begins with Jason having already abandoned Medea, his wife, as well as their two children. Jason has left Medea with the intention of marrying Glauce, the daughter of Creon, the king of Corinth, which would ultimately advance Jason's social and political position. We learn from a nurse some of the events that have
Medea when she decides it is time for her to kill her children struggles with the idea for a minute, “…do not be a coward, do not think of them, and how you are their mother…Oh I am an unhappy women.”(Pg 40). This is how a traditional Athenian woman would think, but she would be unable to commit to her plans and kill her own children. Medea on the other hand lets her passion and hatred for Jason take over her reasonable and straight thinking self, as she kills her own children while listening to them pray to God for help.
Despite the similarity there is a evident difference and this can be to ‘Accentuat[ed] the dangers of Greeks having unpredictable foreign [wives]’ as found by Mackay. Nugent supports this as she too suggest that the play ‘may have had resonance with males in the audience who had foreign concubines’ to warn them of their cunningness. As presented when Medea says ‘greet your father…and love him as you mother does’ she says while plotting revenge on him [895]. Medea throughout the play wasn’t trusted by men, ‘ you are a clever woman and skilled in may evil arts’ [285], and this could be because of her barbarian heritage. However, Know debates this as he states that it wasn’t her barbarian heritage that was distrusted, but rather ‘Men distrust superior intelligence in general but they really fear and hate it in a woman’. Seghir finds that Euripides use of a female was a very feministic thing because, the fact that he made a woman his protagonist is a big
Medea has been cheated on at this point in her story, all she does is cry. “Friends talk to her, try to give her good advice; she listens the way a rock does, or an ocean wave.” Ignorantly ignoring her friends, she comes to the realization that she doesn’t like her children and that leaving her homeland was a bad idea in the first place. Although she is no longer blindly in love with Jason, she has just become blinded by the rage that has buil...
In the beginning of the play, we learn that Medea along with her two children have been abandoned by Jason. Jason is Medea’s husband who leaves her to be with the daughter of Creon, the king of Corinth. Jason knows that by being with his daughter he will one day be able to achieve power and glory. The decision by Jason to leave Medea for Creon daughter is optimally the quarter stone for Medea’s quest for revenge. There are a few conversations in the play between Medea and Jason, which shows Jason does still have some feelings for Medea. They also show his true love for his two children, but Jason’s lust for power and glory is seen as the most important thing. He makes excuses for abandoning his family by saying: he is doing this for the best interest of them. Although the reader can conclude that he is doing this for his own best interest. Jason seems to have no realization of how truly mad Medea has become for him leaving her. Media’s love and devotion towards Jason controls her life. Jason’s decision to leave her optimally turns Media into a sociopath. With this state of mind, Medea optimally...
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.