“Jason has betrayed his own sons, and my mistress, for a royal bed, for alliance with the king of Corinth” (Euripides 17-18).
This is stated by the Nurse. At the beginning of the story the Nurse briefly describes what happens, while she is mourning over Medea’s decisions. She describes what happens to lead to Medea’s decisions. Jason, Medea’s husband, abandons his wife and children. Then, he remarries a princess, daughter of the king of Corinth. This causes Medea to get jealous and make plans to get revenge on Jason. The nurse says that Jason is not loyal and very greedy. Jason is described by the quote.
The quote explains one of Jason’s personalities. It shows how Jason is not loyal. When people get married they pledge allegiance to each other and their vows, similar to signing a contract. Jason
…show more content…
breaks this contract and leaves Medea. He does not legally leave Medea. Instead of getting divorced, he just leaves and abandons Medea and their kids. When Jason marries the princess, this shows his greed. He would rather marry someone he does not love and have a bunch of money, instead of marrying somebody he loves. Jason’s greed causes him to like money more than love. Jason’s personalities are shown through the quote. Medea Response Journal Entry #2 “To ensure your future, and to give my children brothers Of royal blood, and build security for us all” (Euripides 35). Jason says this quote. When he comes back to see Medea, she yells at and criticizes Jason’s decision. When he gets the chance, Jason says this quote to Medea. Even though he explains why he decided to do this, she does not accept his apology. He tries to explain that he is doing this to help. Medea stays mad at Jason for his decision. She still plans to get revenge on Jason. This quote gives hints about what Jason has in mind. This shows that Jason abandons Medea and their kids for a reason. Jason ties to explain to Medea that he married the princess to help their children’s future and for security. If he is telling the truth, then Jason still cares about Medea and the kids. The decision will show how much he really loves them, he will go through all of this trouble to help his wife and kids. On the other hand, if he is lying about this, then the lying will support the fact that he is not loyal and should not be trusted. Even though Jason could be lying, he is very serious when he says this to Medea. This shows how true this statement is, and how much he cares about her and the kids. If Jason does have a plan and it goes through, his family can have a very happy life. The quote supports that Jason might of choses to remarry for a reason. Medea Response Journal Entry #3 “On your house too Fate sends me as a curse” (Euripides 35). Medea says this to Jason. Jason comes to talk about his decision to Medea. He hopes she will understand why he chose this decision. Medea is still mad at Jason for what he has done. She is mad enough to bring their religion into the conversation. She tells Jason that she was sent by the Fates to curse him. Jason responds by ending the fight and going back home. This quote is a religious quote. This quote shows how religious Medea is in this story. Some people may be religious, but only very religious people use their religious in their everyday lives. In Greece, their religion is about the Greek mythology. One of the things included were the Fates, who were three goddesses that control what happens to man from birth to death. When Medea tries to make a comeback at Jason, during their argument, she says that the Fates caused her to be a curse for Jason. This shows how Medea uses religion in her everyday life. She uses religion to make a comeback at Jason. If she does this, then that means she is very religious. The quote explains how religious Medea is in the story. Medea Response Journal Entry #4 “But in my plot kill the princess...I will kill my sons.” (Euripides 41).
This is a part of Medea’s plan. Jason comes back home to apologize to Medea. She does not accept the apology. So, she starts to make a plan to get back at Jason. These are two parts of her plan. Medea wants to kill the princess because Jason remarried the princess, and he would be devastated. Also, she wants to kill her kids because she believes that if she does not get them, then nobody should. This whole plan will get revenge on Jason for Medea. The quote is Medea explaining her plan.
This plan shows how mad and greedy Medea is. Medea wants to kill the princess to get revenge on Jason. Obviously, killing a princess is a very big crime. She would get arrested and possibly sentenced to death, but she thinks it is worth it just to get revenge on Jason. This proves that she is mad. Also, she planned to kill her kids. Medea loves her kids and want them to be safe, she begs the king to let them stay. She thinks it is better for them to be dead because she cannot have them for herself. This is very greedy. Medea’s greediness and madness is shown though this
plan. Medea Response Journal Entry #5 “I long to fold them in my arms; To kiss their lips would comfort me.” (Euripides 60). Jason says this to his wife, Medea. Medea follows through with her plan to get revenge on Jason, and she kills her kids. Jason arrives and hears of this. He orders his men to break into the house to receive his children and Medea, but they cannot get in. A little bit later, Medea appears with her dead children out of reach. Jason attempts to get the bodies to bury them. He at least tried to say bye to them, but Medea says no. This is what is said by Jason to Medea. This quote shows that Jason still cares about their kids. Even though, almost anybody would want a dead person to have a proper burial, Jason keeps trying to get to them. He does not stop trying to persuade Medea to let him have the bodies of the kids. Also, he gets his men to try to break into the house. Jason stops at nothing to get the kids bodies, although he fails. Somebody who does not care about someone else would not try this much to get their bodies to bury. They might just try a little then quit, but Jason does not stop. Jason’s feelings for him and his wives kids are shown through this quote.
Jason acknowledges that he will never become king if he stays married with Medea because of the greek’s being scared of her dark soul
According to the article, “Jason Iason,” Medea and Jason got married after he gave the Fleece to Pelias. Jason didn’t become king, though, because of something Medea did. Some believe Jason helped her plot the death of his uncle, but others say it was all Medea’s idea. She convinced Pelias’s daughters that they could make him look young again. All they had to do was chop him up and put him in a pot, and that’s what they did. The people of Iolcus were disgusted. Jason and Medea were forced to flee (“Jason”). They lived happily for a while, having many children. Their delightful life ended, though, when out of nowhere, a king offered his daughter to Jason. He accepted the marriage proposal, leaving Medea and their children. Some think that Jason was cheating on Medea before he told her about his new lady friend, though (“Jason Iason”). Medea was so infuriated, that she sent the princess a poisoned wedding dress. The dress ended up killing the princess and the king. Medea wasn’t done yet. To get even more revenge on Jason, the Encyclopedia of Myths says that Medea murdered all their children. Other stories say that the citizens were so upset about their king and princesses deaths, that they killed Jason and Medea’s children. Either way, their kids end up being murdered. When his children and fiance died, and his wife left him, Jason grew very lonely and depressed. Thus leading him to pray to the
Courageous, powerful, and reckless, Medea left her home without her father's blessing to accompany Jason to the land of Corinth, after using her magic powers to slay the dragon that guarded the golden fleece. She also killed her own brother to slow Jason's chasers. For a while, Medea and Jason lived in harmony in Corinth where they had two children. Later, Jason left Medea for Kreon's daughter. She became grief-stricken at her loss and filled with rage at Jason's betrayal. This, is explained by her nurse during the prologue in World Literature Volume A (pg697), "she'll not stop raging until she has struck at someone",
She gave the children the dress she made and the diadem, submerged with poison and instructed her to give these gifts to the princess under the false impression that she wants to please her so she may convince her father to allow the children to stay in Corinth. After the death of the king and the princess, Medea kills her two children. The only time the children have spoken and they plead to live. There is no future for the children, to escape their mother’s wrath and anger and her drive to hurt and destroy everything and everyone that Jason loves and cares about. Medea contributes to the work as a whole because we see her side of the story and understand the motives behind her action and the consequences as the result of her madness. Medea is the rising action and the climax of the play. We also see Jason side of the story from his conversations with Medea and his explanation was awful. He is the reason for the conflict and issues for Medea but Jason does not take care of the problems he created nor does he take the responsibility for the consequences of his actions. He married a sorceress and not a normal Greek
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 is outraged that she sacrificed so much to help Jason, only to have him revoke his pledge to her for his own selfish gain. She asks him whether he thinks the gods whose names he swore by have ceased to rule, thereby allowing him to break his promise to her. Medea vows to avenge her suffering by destroying Jason's new family and his children. When Jason curses his wife for her murdering at the end of the play, she says to him, 'What heavenly power lends an ear / To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?
By the end, the husband and wife are left devoid of love and purpose as the tragedy closes. In Medea, a woman betrays her homeland because of her love for a man. Jason is the husband that she ferociously loves and makes sacrifices for. They have two children together: Antigone and Ismeme. In Jason's quest for the golden fleece, Medea assists him in multiple ways.
When Jason left Medea to marry Glauce, Medea was plagued with sadness and then with anger. The man she loved, the man that she gave up her life for, had betrayed her. In the patriarchal society that Medea lived in, it was not acceptable for a woman to protest any decision made by her husband. Medea went against all social standards and took revenge on Jason for the wrongs that he had committed. She was willing to take any chance and sacrifice even her most valued possessions. Medea knew that the best way to avenge the wrongs of Jason was to kill Glauce and the children. It was a huge sacrifice for Medea to kill the children that she loved, but she allowed herself to look past that love and only see her hate and contempt for Jason. Medea was willing to go against every rule that society set, so that her husband wouldn't get away with leaving her for political reasons.
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.
In the beginning, the character Medea is crying for the loss of her husband. “O Zeus. do you hear the chanted prayer of a wife in her aguish?” (Euripides 148-149). Euripides' use of the Greek god, Zeus, symbolizes the character Jason.
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.
Later in the story, our sympathy transfers from Medea to Jason. Her revenge turns immoral, leaving readers with a sense of uneasiness. It is not so much the fact that she kills Creon and his daughter, but the fact that she slays her children in cold-blood.
Because Medea was such a different woman people in her society were afraid of her, including men. As a result of this, before Jason, she never experienced being in love. When she finally experienced this type of love she went to no end for Jason. To protect Jason and her love for him she killed the beast guarding the Golden Fleece, she killed her brother, and she left her home, family and everything she knew for him. Most women would not have gone that far for love, especially women during her time; but Medea was not your average woman. All of the things she did for Jason will come into play, and partly account for her actions at the end of the play.
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...
"Finally, the play opens with Medea's Nurse indirectly giving background information to the story about to unfold. It is quickly understood by the audience that Jason, the husband of Medea, for whom she disowned her family and had killed for, has left her for the King of Corinth (Creon's) daughter - a beautiful princess. Medea is outraged by this and is set on seeking revenge on him.