Kandace Davis
English 230
World Literature
Paper 2
Medea
In the play of Medea, a lot of turmoil has come her way and now she hates everyone and swears for revenge. She gains a friend along the way Aegeus who is king of Athens and promises protection for Medea, because she is about to unleash hell. The nurse who cares for her and her children is kind and tries her best to keep Medea wrath from her children but is unsuccessful. Jason who was her husband is the culprit in the story and the cause of Medea’s behavior. In this paper true sympathy will be displayed.
Since the play opened up in beginning scenes Medea world has started to crumble. Starting off with Medea, she is a princess, she fell in love with her current husband Jason. Out the
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She asks him to ask the king to let the children be allowed to stay in Corinth. Her plan is unfolding and she knows that she has everything she needs. She makes sure her children will bring these gifts to his new bride. Lastly in him feeling bad he sympathizes with her. Aegeus was Medea’s first victim of sympathy for her next is Jason’s bride. She no longer cares for the sympathy from the women of …show more content…
“Why should I flee alone? I came not thus. Or if avenging war, thou fear'st, then banish both the culprits; why distinguish me 275 From Jason? (Miller, Frank Justus. "The Tragedies of Seneca." The Tragedies of Seneca, The University of Chicago Press, 1907. Web. 03 July 2016.) Medea does the ultimate sin to gain sympathy to show Jason how bad he truly hurt her, she kills her two children. Now the whole city is against her and now Jason want sympathy from Medea after all the turmoil she has been through. “Medea killed her children to take away the smile from her husband's face, according to Euripides, an offence against nature and morality. What if Medea had still been carrying her two children, perhaps due to give birth within a week?” (Reid, M. C., and G. Gillett. "The Case of Medea." Journal of Medical Ethics. U.S. National Library of Medicine, Feb. 1997. Web. 03 July