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Medea Revenge Quotes

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Revenge is considered to be a part of human nature, which can prevent transgressors from harming others. Both Euripides and Flynn use their main characters’ professed need for justice, desire to achieve power and skills at manipulation in order to demonstrate that revenge is a selfish and destructive act driven by pride and an obsession with control that can harm innocent bystanders. The professed need for justice motivates both characters to make their husband’s not only suffer, but to acknowledge the damage they have caused. In Euripides’ play, Medea’s husband abandons his wife and children to marry a young princess from Corinth. Jason stops supporting his family to wed a younger princess (Medea: Characters). Medea reacts horribly to his …show more content…

(19) At the end of the play, she destroys all of her responsibilities and relationships to establish justice causing Jason to be left with nothing (46) In Flynn’s movie adaption, Amy Elliot Dunne’s husband has been unfaithful to her. His decisions causes his wife to seek revenge and slowly receive justice by disappearing and framing her own murder. When driving away from Missouri and escaping Nick, she says, “ … presumably dead, gone and my lazy, lying, cheating, oblivious husband will go to prison for my murder” (Fincher 1:06:22). His laziness and infidelity drives Amy to want Nick to be executed for his wrongful acts. She wants Nick to pay for his actions and death is the greatest form of payback. However, she chooses to remain with him after his television appearance. She forces him to continue their marriage and have a child that certainly will cause the utmost torture for Nick, but justice for Amy. Furthermore, Medea and Amy certainly prove that they will go to extreme measures to establish justice in their

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Voice and movement and stage craft also allow the audience to be challenged while simultaneously celebrating life through the dramatic meaning, which becomes prevailing over the course of the performance. Dramatic irony played a vital role in the performance execution as it generated suspense and curiosity, involved the audience, established a personal connection and triggered strong emotions. This dramatic technique was conveyed through the challenging of traditional roles of women and mothers. Euripides Medea, focuses on

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Regardless, Medea chooses to chase after Jason, a man that she is attempting to not love, but cannot get over because it is based on infatuation and she is ignorant of this

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In Euripides’ text The Medea, Medea can easily be painted as the villian. She is a woman who killed her own children in an attempt to spite her husband. But, by examining the text, we can see that she deserves some sympathy. She has little to no control over her own life and has to rely on the will of men. And as a foreigner in Corinth abandoned by her husband, she faces even more challenges than the native women of Corinth did.

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The writer, John R. Schafer, Stated "The more intense the relationship, the more intense the betrayal is. " The quote means that when a relationship gets strong and betrayal happens, The impact on the person who is being betrayed is more degenerative. In Medea, Medea betrays Jason because he cheated on her for Glauce. Medea returns the favor by killing Jason’s sons and taking their corpses with her. “You killed my sons, and now refuse to let me even touch or bury them.”

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After doing such a thing she was exiled from her own homeland and while she was escaping with Jason and the Golden Fleece she took severe measures and murdered her brother, cutting him up into little pieces, and throwing those pieces into the sea in order to gain some time to escape successfully. This was a complete and utter betrayal by Medea towards her family and homeland. This was not it, Medea and Jason settled in Lolcos and in Lolcos Medea manipulated the daughter of the king and tricked her into killing her father (the king of Lolcos). The only reason she did this was so that Jason could obtain the throne of Lolcos but both of them were banned from Lolcos too. After this Creon, the king of Corinth, welcomes them into his territory, in Corinth, Creon asks Jason to marry his daughter and Jason accepts, betraying Medea.

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While most Greek tragedies would involve the victim directly murdering the violator, Ino, Procne, and Medea defy this convention and instead use their children as pawns for revenge. Instead of murdering the enemy in cold blood, the loss of one’s children incites enough rage, sadness, and defeat to destroy anyone. The next point that Mills addresses is the debate over whether Medea is a supernatural figure or a human being driven to extremes by passion. He reflects on the history of Medea’s character; how she was an outsider who came to Greece and became an outsider once again after she was exiled and her instances of procuring various spices and herbs to create concoctions of healing potions. But despite her mystical past, her powers do not have a history of being used viciously.

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It is apparent that to some extent, Medea like all other women, are mere fodder of the patriarchal society in Corinth. Medea’s intelligent and cunning manipulation of words to her advantage successfully arouses the empathy from the Nurse, The Chorus and the audience. Euripides proves that Medea is much more than a ‘betrayed wife’, and shows that despite the injustices she faces, she is a capable, iconoclastic and independent individual. As a consequence of Medea’s heinous and immoral acts the audience is constantly reaffirmed of her callosity. Ultimately, Medea explores the notion that when an individual is forced to absolute desperation, their last resort of gaining attention is to commit an abominable act of violence.

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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.)

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Of all the various translations of the interaction between Jason and Medea, from the play “Medea”, the translation by Warner most strongly reinforces the harsh and severe mannerism between the two. Jason and Medea are manipulative towards one another and use their condescending tactics to victimize themselves and villainize the other. They are selfish in their fragile relationship in that they turn on the other to get what they want from the relationship. In Medea’s case, she wants her ideology of a husband, since this is what she has been accustomed to her whole life and how society has taught her to believe is normal. Jason however, wants whoever he is currently lusting for, who at this time is not Medea, and he will make her out to be anything

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This inspires Medea to take revenge on the King and Princess of Corinth, and on Jason. Euripides’ use of minor characters in Medea, specifically the Nurse, Creon and Aegeus, serves to hold the story together, moving the plot forward and reflecting the cultural values of the time, while also revealing a key theme of the play: the gods’ support of Medea. The minor characters also, through the exemplification of the cultural importance of oaths, heirs and patriarchy in Ancient Greece, ground the story to the time period in which it was set and written. The Nurse, the first minor character we meet, is used by Euripides to introduce the story and its characters, as well as to reflect the societal importance of patriarchy and oaths.

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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.

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However, this was clearly not his intention because he did nothing to prevent his children being kicked out into the wild. Unsurprisingly, Medea became enraged and sought to obtain the justice she was not able to obtain. She wanted to judge Jason based on his inexplicable actions. He abandoned his paternal duties and were willing to start a new life, while she and their children were left to

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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.

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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.

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