Place your comments on _Medea_ here. Some issues that you might discuss are as follows:
1. Character development and/or motivation
2. The use of the Chorus as a character
3. The use of the unity of time, place, and action (All events take place in one area in 24 hours)
4. Themes for the work
5. Literary devices used in the work
6. The use of mythological allusions
9 comments:
To me Medea is a play about extreme vengence and passion. The way Medea decides to get back at Jason was shocking and heartless. How could she do that to her own children and the man she once loved? (All in the name of fame and glory... I don't think so.) The children play their roles as mere tools that are used to Medeas advantage and to Jasons last suffering. Medeas longing for payback and fame show that evil got the best of that mom.
Some symolism I found in Medea:
Death-sons, Creon, & princess
Sword-blood, kills sons
Crown- fire, kills princess
Dragons-Helios helps Medea
Sun-Helios, a god
Hecate & Atremis- goddessess
Sons death-Medeas resistence to Jasons new lover
Jason-civilized
Medea-barbaric
Randi, do you really think that Medea was seeking fame and glory? I understand seeing Medea as barbaric, but explain how Jason is civilized!
The Chorus of Corinthian women were the wise speakers throughout the play. They would always counteract what Medea was saying with wise, helpful advice. Even though clearly she was too far gone to listen to them.
Throughout the play, Medea only grew more vengeful and dangerous. Even when Jason offered to take care of her and her sons while they are exiled, she still schemed and took revenge against Jason by killing everyone he cared about. In her mind, revenge was the only way she would find satisfaction and fufillment after Jason had left her.
To me Medea was twisted, but very sad. She only did these crazy things because her husband whom she was crazy about left her. She was extremley heart-broken. It is sad that love can cause people to do such strange things. She killed, just to try to make Jason suffer.She ends up killing her childen, the only people she has.
It seems very wrong to me that Jason is not seen as a bad person to anyone other than Medea, I mean yes some of the characters we encounter tell her she has plenty of reason to be mad at him i do n ot think any of them really see him as a bad person. What kind of man just up and leaves his wife? Especially when he is perfectly happy at home.
Madea throughout the play tells us about the many people she has killed or betrayed. So by the time the play ends I am not surprised that she has killed her own children. Madea's hatred towards Jason and his new family is very harsh and vengeful. She is open about this hatred and how she is going to make the family suffer as a reslut of this she and her children are exiled from the land. This play is still around today because the general feeling and expression of feelings aew still around today.
I think that Medea from the beginning of the book was willing to kill her children to get back at Jason for leaving her. She was a very vengeful and unforgiving character. I think that the Chorus was sort of like Medea's conscience but she was too far gone to listen to them. The entire story taking place in 24 hours says that Medea was a very smart woman to be able to plan all that out in such a sort period of time.
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