Thursday, December 20, 2018

'Jason & Medea Essay\r'

'How do Jason’s feelings at the end of the play disagree from those revealed in other encounters? In their first encounter, Jason appears to be trying to make himself feel as if he is offend than Medea, and as if he is the bigger mortal than she, mfou no doubt hate me: but I could neer bear ill- get issue to you” implies that he is a better person for helping her even out though she hates him †and that even after all that’s happened and all she has state he still â€Å"could never bear ill-will”.\r\nHe continues to try and defend his actions, claiming it was for social status, that he didn’t link for love, but for the fact hat he wants to k this instant they will have a true(p) life and non be poor; in like manner, as he marries the King’s daughter, his sons with Medea will be half-brothers to any children Jason may have with Glauce, therefore improving their status on becoming a business leader of Corinth.\r\nTheir second en counter is after Medea has decided her make plan; she knows how she will kill the princess and the king, and has then(prenominal) alike planned to kill her sons. She asks for Jason to attend, and he does, at which train she acts like a stereotypical wife of the succession, admitting that she was do by for all the feelings she had, and that verything that had happened was her fault, that she overreacted because she knew Jason was only doing it for the good of their family.\r\nIt would seem to be a friendly conversation on Jason’s part, he shows no kind of hostility towards Medea when she speaks to him, and openly accepts her apology, and states when he first speaks to her that he is â€Å"ready to get word”. However, after in this meeting he, again, demeens women, â€Å"Only course a woman is livid when her husband marries a second wife. ” perhaps this is true in a sense, however I think anyone would be angry if their significant ther decided to marry som eone else; not Just a woman.\r\nAfter this it could be utter that Medea plays up to this, as when he mentions his sons growing up and being strong, she weeps. This may be because she knows her sons will never go, or she believes crying will make Jason benevolence her. In this encounter he also mentions informal jealousy, implying that Medea is simply angry because of the fact that Jason is now quiescency with someone else, rather than her †this is because he doesn’t insure her anger, and therefore infers that it is because of this, rather than the fact that he eft her to marry another.\r\nLater in this passage, he also refers to Medea as a â€Å"foolish woman” when she tries to send the Coronet and full-dress to Glauce, and this theme of sexism is carried out a few lines later â€Å"If my wife values me at all she will yield to me to a greater extent than to costly presents, I am sure of that”; again, the attitude of the ancient Greek time was that wo men were to do what they were told, rather than what they wanted. They were to be obedient, and not duty period any rules.\r\nIn the third and final encounter, at the end of the play, it appears Jason has reached is peripeteia, his downfall. Medea, at this point, has killed their two sons †and it is clear he loses thoroughgoing(a) control of his emotions, and he begins wildly bruise Medea, calling ner an â€Å"abomination”. It is also earlier in this pa rt that ne calls ner â€Å"the woman I will kill. ” at the beginning of the play, he was supposedly in love with her, whilst at the end, he wants nothing more than her to be dead.\r\nIt becomes obvious that Jason has realised what Medea is truly like, how artful and cunning she is; and how she tricked him, in certain parts, at least, into accept she as Just an obedient wife to him. He claims he wants the gods to â€Å"blast her life”, and during the time in which most, if not all, people believed that these gods were real and had impact on their lives, this would be one of the worst things to wish upon someone else.\r\nAgain, Jason also mentions her â€Å"sexual Jealousy’, blaming this for the murder of their children â€Å"… out of mere sexual Jealousy, you murder them! ” At the complete end of the play, Jason is on the ground, whilst Medea is in a carry (pulled by dragons) on the roof; this could be a representation of the fact that, in the eginning, Jason was of a higher(prenominal) standing than Medea, however at the end she had gotten (in a sense) what she wanted, and that she was now on top †her enemies not fitting to laugh at her.\r\nHe asks Medea to let him sink the children, a request which she declines, so he then asks if he could hold them one last time. She responds with â€Å"now you have kisses for them”, as previously Jason had appeared to be more than happy to let his sons be exiled †even if he did state in previous encount ers that he had get hitched with the princess not for Just his social standing, but also his sons.\r\n'

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