Medea
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- Medea
- Characters
- Medea- Wife of Jason, Princess of Colchis. Barbarian and Sorceress. Grandfather is Helios the Sun God.
- Betrayed by Jason's remarriage, gets exiled from Corinth but is offered refuge in Rome by Aegeus. Kills her children.
- Creon- King of Corinth, Jason's father in law to be.
- Is afraid of Medea, gives her one more day before exile. Gets killed by the poison Medea gives Glauce.
- Jason- Son of Aeson, leader of the Argonauts. Married Medea but has new bride Glauce.
- Leaves Medea for Princess of Corinth Glauce for political power. Medea kills all his children, new wife and her father.
- Aegeus- King of Athens and a friend of Medea.
- Makes an oath to Medea that he will give her a safe haven in Athens if she helps him have children.
- The Nurse- foreshadows children's death. Is an outside commentator on the play. disapproves of Medea killing her children.
- Medea- Wife of Jason, Princess of Colchis. Barbarian and Sorceress. Grandfather is Helios the Sun God.
- The Chorus
- The Corinthian women, loyal to Medea, have a vow of silence, horrified by her killing her children.
- Parados- show Medea friendship and sympathy to her distress. Ask her to come outside.
- 1st Stasimon- Takes Medea's side on being against men.
- 3rd Stasimon- talks of how Medea will ruin Athens if she comes there after she murders her children.
- 2nd Stasimon- Pray for moderation in love use Medea as example for excess.
- 4th Stasimon- foreshadow Medea killing her children. Will ruin Jason, Glauce and Medea's families.
- 5th Stasimon- The difficulties of having children and being a woman.
- 6th Stasimon- horrified as they hear Medea killing her children.
- Themes
- Role of Women
- Jason believes women to be weak willed.
- Jason (talking about Glauce) "If she is like the rest of her sex, I think I shall persuade her"
- Sexually slighted woman.
- Revenge
- feels betrayed by Jason
- Revenge
- Women are inheritally bad and are an inconvenience to society.
- Jason: "The human race should produce children from some other source and the female sex should not exist. Then mankind would be free of evil."
- Medea: "We are women, supremely helpless when there's good to be done, supreme in clever craftsmanship of all bad deeds."
- Medea does not fit in the role of a woman.
- Medea- "I would rather stand three times in the battle line than bear on child."
- Jason believes women to be weak willed.
- Revenge
- feels betrayed by Jason
- Passion and Rage
- Excess hate and love towards Jason.
- complete lack of moderation, very; which is very important to the Greeks.
- The outsider
- Xenophobic society
- Because Jason is divorcing Medea, she is no longer a citizen of Trozen and has to be exiled.
- Medea would be considered a barbarian, would have looked, acted and sounded very different.
- Oikos
- without Jason or her father Medea has no Kyrios, seeks this from Aegeus.
- Jason marries Glauce to produce higher born heirs.
- Jason and Medea's marriage less legitmate as Medea is a foreigner.
- The outsider
- Xenophobic society
- Because Jason is divorcing Medea, she is no longer a citizen of Trozen and has to be exiled.
- Medea would be considered a barbarian, would have looked, acted and sounded very different.
- The outsider
- Jason and Medea's marriage less legitmate as Medea is a foreigner.
- Jason's betrayal of married oaths, his children illegitimate.
- Honour and pride
- Cannot bear her enemies mocking her, so much so she kills her children.
- Medea: "Laughter from my enemies is not to be endured"
- Cannot bear her enemies mocking her, so much so she kills her children.
- Role of Women
- Plot
- Prologue- The nurse tells of how Medea originally saved Jason, pities her. The tutor says she is banished, Medea laments.
- Tutor- "the ruler of this country is intending to to drive these children with their mother from the land of Corinth."
- Episode 1- Creon enters and tells Medea she is banished, she convinces him for her to stay one more day, plots to kill them.
- Medea- "a day in which I shall make three of my enemies corpses."
- Episode 2- Medea and Jason argue about who is to blame for the exile.
- Jason: "You made this choice. You have no one else to blame."
- Episode 3- Aegeus arrives, Aegeus offers her safety in Athens if Medea helps him have children.
- Medea: " receive me in your country at the hearth of your palace. So may your desire for children with God's help find fulfilment."
- Episode 4- tells Jason she wants to give Glauce gifts so her children don't get exiled but really uses it to poison Glauce.
- Medea: "bid your wife to entreat her father that the children should not go into exile."
- Episode 5- Children have been allowed to stay in Corinth, Medea decides she must kill them."
- Medea: "I who gave them birth shall kill them."
- Episode 6- Messenger brings news of Glauce and Creon's death. Medea further confirms she must kill her children.
- Messenger: " The princess has just died- and her father, Creon- from your poison."
- Exodus- Jason enters fearing for his children but they are already dead. Medea flies off with them, not letting him touch them.
- Jason: "Did you really think my marriage a good enough reason to kill them?"
- Prologue- The nurse tells of how Medea originally saved Jason, pities her. The tutor says she is banished, Medea laments.
- Comparison
- Hippolytus an Medea share the idea of a sexually slighted woman and characters wanting to get rid of women.
- Antigone and Medea show an example of women that go against the sophrosyne norms of society.
- Medea and Oedipus are both characters referred to frequently as being clever, however it makes Oedipus a hero and Medea a dangerous villain.
- Creon (To Medea): "You are a clever woman, skilled in many evil wiles."
- Priest (To Oedipus): "no extra knowledge, still you triumphed."
- Characters
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