ipl-logo

Love Revealed In Homer's 'Medea'

699 Words3 Pages

To some Medea is about love, but it goes deeper than love. Love is the cause of all the wrongs. Medea is mostly about the power Gods have. Not only is it about the power they have, it's about how they use it and what they do with it. It’s also about not letting this power end. Conflicts, breakup, revenge, murders and some disappoint happened all because of power. Also judgments, gender inequality, and characters being portrayed something their not. This is the cause of evilness amongst one another.
Medea a witch, in which was also Jason's wife. Because of Eros, the god of love, she was madly deeply in love. This love was a dangerous love. She helped him do many things. She helped him reach his goal, and take his father's throne from his uncle. …show more content…

Just like Zeus was greater than cronus. Defeated his father, and was the greatest of them all. Aegus wanted the same as well. He wanted a son but wasn't able to heir. A god was blocking him from giving inheritance to his son. That was the reason for most gods having kids, multiple kids. But it goes deeper than this.
Being the fact that Medea helped Jason with King pelias. Medea suffered the consequences. She was punished for Jason's actions. She was abandoned from Corinth. All the things she did for Jason, portrayed her as an evil witch. That is the reason why Creon, the king of corinth, kicked madea out of Corinth. The father of the princess believed that Madea would do anything in her power to not let this marriage go through. If she wouldn’t have been struck by cupid, she wouldn’t have fell in love with Jason. If she wouldn’t have met Jason, none of the things she did would have happen. But it happen, and she fell in love.
Medea was punished for Jason's actions. This is called Gender inequality. Medea being a female and Jason a male, she gets hurt and punished while Jason on the other hand is going to marry another woman. In which the other woman is a princess, and they will have royal children. He could still stay in Corinth. Medea is with both kids, trying to figure out where to go since Creon forbid her from being in

Show More
Related

The Man I Killed By Tim O Brien

979 Words | 4 Pages

Death will always complement war. This is seen clearly in Tim O’Brien’s short story “The Man I Killed”. In this tale the Main character, Tim, is vividly describing in his mind the enemy Vietcong solider he just killed life story before his death. He details everything, from the visible wounds on the soldier’s body to a fantasy of the man’s life. Meanwhile, to soldiers in Tim’s platoon acknowledge that he killed this man and try to speak to him about it.

Read More

Why Did Medea Want To Glauke

464 Words | 2 Pages

She left Jason with nothing because all he left her with was her soul. Medea gave Jason the torture and suffering she thought he deserves. Corinthian women would never put their husbands through that even if they did leave them. They would never let their anger get the best of them to the point where they kill their own children they brought into the world. They learned that they are the caregivers of their children and should not bring harm to them.

Read More

Medea Revenge Quotes

167 Words | 1 Pages

Through the epilogue described by the nurse, the audience is positioned to understand medea's desire for revenge. The audience may have viewed her position of being betrayed by Jason to be devastating( insert quote instead of devastating) and hold sympathy for her as she is not only an outsider from a presumed barbaric country, but also an exile. During when the play was first performed, religion played a big role in Athenian lives, during which breaking an oath to the gods was considered a crime. Hence, the audience would understand medea's wish to bestow revenge upon Jason for he broke his oath of marriage to her, which was witnessed by the gods, by laying in the 'royal bed'.

Read More

Justice In Medea's Hero Ethic

341 Words | 2 Pages

Medea’s actions throughout the text show “that she has the reach and temper of a thwarted tyrant or of one like an Ajax or a Prometheus,” of a hero and of a man. Medea’s hero-like nature is also displayed through Medea’s heroic departure in the play in which she rides off to Athens in Helios’ chariot while Jason is left behind (now childless, widowed, and abandoned). It is especially important that Medea rides off to Athens as, if going to Greece is an improvement for Medea, then Athens would have been seen as quite the reward, especially by an Athenian audience. This confirms her placement among Heros, further supporting the notion she is acting as a man would. The actions of Medea are, while extreme, not surprising when considered in light of her

Read More

Jason And Medea Comparison Essay

948 Words | 4 Pages

She trusted and loved him and he repaid her by marrying someone else. Jason cheated not for love, but for money and power. The hero of the Argo lusted after more power than he already had, driving his relationship into the ground. He becomes peeved at Medea when she refuses to go into exile. True ire overwhelms him at the end of the play when he finds out that Medea is the reason his children, his new bride,

Read More

The Dragon's Parody: The Legend Of The Dragon

1479 Words | 6 Pages

Once upon a time there was a red and gold dragon who lived in a cave. Now, I bet you think you know what kind of cave it is don’t you? The cave filled with jewels and golden coins that this dragon stole. Ha! Nope.

Read More

Medea Marriage Analysis

1516 Words | 7 Pages

Jason’s new marriage with Glauce plummeted Medea into revengeful and passionate fury. She had given up everything to live with Jason after which he had cheated and tricked her. This makes the readers sympathize with Medea. Jason had spurned the privacy, purity, sanctity of their marriage sphere. In the process of wanting to gain honor, he had backstabbed Medea by demoting her from the status of a legal wife to that of a concubine.

Read More

Literary Analysis: Medea By Euripides

1497 Words | 6 Pages

Medea plots her revenge by murdering the king, the bride and her two children in order to make Jason suffer and take away everything Jason cared about. The Greek gods felt that Medea was in her right and they proved this by allowing and even helping her escape in the end of the play

Read More

Euripides's Role Of Women In Medea

1010 Words | 5 Pages

Her despair and grief intrigued everyone in Corinth which led to the appearance of the chorus. Since Medea is a foreigner in their city, it was easier for them to judge Medea for they do not know her. They thought that Medea’s reaction was too much and since she is a woman, she had no rights to act that way. Medea was too devastated to show up yet she wanted to point out her side. She shared her heart breaking story of how Jason left her and their children for Princess Glauke.

Read More

Role Of Revenge In Medea

1146 Words | 5 Pages

Not only did this hurt Jason, but it also hurt the Corinthian king,his daughter and many more. Medea felt justified in her homicidal acts because she had given up so much to be with Jason. Medea’s nurse explained how the main character abandoned her life for a man she believed she loved, “Sometimes she turns to look away, to call out for her father, her country and home: all abandoned and betrayed for a man who now abandons her, betrays her honor and her love. She has learned the hard way what it is to be an exile to had given up everything” ( lines 29-36.)

Read More

Medea Argumentative Essay

1607 Words | 7 Pages

Lush explains “Although Euripides did not cast Medea as a male solider as its protagonist, the play depicts Medea as suffering from the background Trauma, betrayal, isolation and consequent symptoms attributed to combat veterans with lasting psychological injuries” (Lush, 2014, p. 25). Hence using Lush’s view on Medea’s character as a devoted warrior suffering from Traumatic hardships in her experiences with the man she gave everything to, we can understand why she wanted revenge. Medea believes Jason owes her more than just the normal husband-wife obligations a man swears to when marrying a woman; in her view, she helped him be the man that he is and supported him throughout his heroic journey. Without her, Jason would not have succeeded in retrieving the Golden Fleece. Without her, he would not have had his father resurrected.

Read More

Examples Of Injustice In Medea

727 Words | 3 Pages

Medea was treated unfairly in the patriarchal society that she lived in and due to the circumstances she was forced to abide by, she sought to achieve her own form of justice. Women were mistreated and regarded as inferior to men. In fact, Medea mentioned how women were like foreigners forced to abide by their husband’s laws and remain subservient. Essentially, women were treated as outsiders and were thought to need constant protection from male figures. So, when the King of Corinth kicked her and her children out of Corinth and Jason left them, she wanted revenge since she felt she had been wronged.

Read More

Machina In Medea

1133 Words | 5 Pages

As is stated throughout the play, “Zeus/[is] the caretaker of oaths for the human race…” (p. 10) which means that it is his job to hurt Jason and those who have broken oaths. Yet, Zeus seems to use Medea as a pawn as well, since he allows her to smite those that have wronged and in return allows her to be saved since it is the least that can be done for someone who has suffered so much at the hands of the gods. When viewing the chariot as remuneration by Zeus, the fact that Aegeus came to Corinth and met Medea at the exact time she needed him can also be viewed as such. As the story goes, Aphrodite charmed Medea into loving Jason, and it is for that reason that she suffered so many hardships.

Read More

Medea Quote Analysis

1434 Words | 6 Pages

Medea has already lost her husband and her home so this decision is an obvious one for her. She wants to leave everyone in the same misery that she has been experienced and continues to experience. After this, she even plans to murder her own children just to distress Jason further. Medea knows that she will live in regret and misery by doing so, but her need to sadden Jason trumps her own future feelings. The murder of her sons also symbolizes the death of her marriage with Jason.

Read More

Theme Of Revenge In Medea

1135 Words | 5 Pages

Medea, the protagonist, is a woman driven by extreme emotions and extreme behaviors. Because of the passionate love she had for Jason, she sacrificed everything .. However, now his betrayal of her transformed the beautiful loving passion to uncontrollable anger, hatred and a desperate desire for revenge. Her violent and temperamental heart, previously devoted to Jason, now moving towards its doom.

Read More

More about Love Revealed In Homer's 'Medea'

Related Topics

Open Document