2018 Medea Themes by Abbey https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27 Boyer en-us 2018-05-17 23:40:59 UTC 2018-10-25 01:09:17 UTC hello@padlet.com Gender Roles / Sexism https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261767862 -Society at the time Medea takes place is very male dominated

-Many characters have varying opinions on the roles women and men should play in society. 

-Medea's thoughts on how women are treated: "we women are the most unfortunate creatures." 


]]> 2018-05-17 23:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261767862 Justice & Revenge https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261767975 - By getting her revenge, Medea is also getting justice for what Jason did to her.

- Medea speaks of her hurt, anger and outrage in terms of love, self-sacrifice and damage to her pride, her essential sense of self. 

"...but wrong a woman in love and nothing on earth has a heart more murderous. (lines 263 - 264). 

"You see my friends, to stuffer the mockery of my enemies is something I will not tolerate."

Chrous-Leader: "the day it seems heaven has rained many blows justly on the head of Jason. (lines 1232 - 1233). 

]]> 2018-05-17 23:46:34 UTC https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261767975 Domestic violence tmareko https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261768335 -Medea fulfills her deeds in getting revenge on Jason, however her revenge affects her children which result in violence being indirectly caused in their home.

-"Medea: Oh, what misery! […] Cursed sons, and a mother for cursing! Death take you all – you and your father […]
Nurse: Why make the sons share in their father's guilt?"

-The Nurse points out the irrationality of Medea's rage. This lady is so out of control that she plots to annihilate all products of she and Jason's union. The boys' innocence is no defense against the irate Medea

-If Medea were like most Greek tragedies, Jason would be right about this. However, Medea, gets off scot free. Nobody takes out any revenge on her and, though she shows some regret about murdering her children earlier in the play, she doesn't seem all that bummed out as flies away on her dragon chariot.]]> 2018-05-17 23:49:07 UTC https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261768335 Betrayal https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261768463 Jason has betrayed his sons and Medea, takes to bed a royal bride 


]]> 2018-05-17 23:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261768463 Passion https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261768473 - Medea is passionate about Jason.
- Medea "I would rather face the enemy three times over than bear a child" 
- Medea "My love for you was greater than my wisdom"
- Euripedes portrayal of Medea's strong emotion portrays her as a character willing to do anything.
- Medea- "I'll storm the gods and shake the universe."
-  As the play opens, the audience learns that Jason has recently left Medea for another woman. This crushes Medea, as she has sacrificed much for Jason, and truly believes that they are lovers meant to be together for life.
-  Eventually her sadness turns to anger, and she begins seeking revenge for the wrong she has been done. Medea immediately begins plotting against Jason, and devises a plan, which she believes, will hurt him in the worst possible way. ]]> 2018-05-17 23:50:04 UTC https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261768473 Jealousy https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261768531 Medea's jealousy appears when Jason decides to marry Clauce

- "But I grieve now for your anguish, pitiful mother of sons, who will shed your children's blood to avenge your bridal bed, forsaken lawlessly by your husband so that he might have another to share his house and bed" - Chorus

- "In bringing suffering on them to cause their father pain, why should I bring twice as much suffering on myself?"]]> 2018-05-17 23:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261768531 Filicide https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261768547 (the killing of one's son and daughter)

- Medea plans the killing of her own children, in a spite of revenge against her husband leaving her for Glauce, a much younger princess. 

- Jason comes back, after finding out about the death of his two sons, wanting to take their dead bodies to properly bury them. Medea refuses and says that she will bury them.]]> 2018-05-17 23:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261768547 Reason https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261768590 - Medea gives reason for the killing of her two children and Glauce, "so be it, anything you say now is wasted".

- "What are you to suffer, if you prove false to this oath?", Medea says this to Aegeus as she plans her revenge for Jason's betrayal, given her reason 'prove false oaths'.

- Jason left her for a princess and Medea lost all her family for him, and in the end she lost him.

- Medea's reasons for this revenge is to hurt Jason as he hurt her.

- "In bringing suffering on them to cause their father pain".

- "I am well aware how terrible a crime I am about to commit, but my passion is master of my reason, passion that causes the greatest suffering in the world".

]]> 2018-05-17 23:50:47 UTC https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261768590 Betrayal. https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261769056 All the violence and terror in Medea is caused by Jason's betrayal of his wife Medea. Her sheer rage at his unfaithfulness drives her to commit horrific acts of bloody revenge. Ironically, Medea's fury at her husband's betrayal drives her to the use of trickery and manipulation, which are really just another form of betrayal. Medea shows how, when one person betrays another, all may be corrupted.


]]> 2018-05-17 23:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261769056 Jealousy https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261769462 - Medea sacrificed so much for Jason and is devastated by the fact that Jason left so sudden especially for a high class princess.

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]]> 2018-05-17 23:58:49 UTC https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261769462 Guilt tmareko https://padlet.com/aboyer7/pnoqhghs1x27/wish/261770092 Jason: Anything you or the children want in exile,
let me know; I'll gladly furnish it […] 
Medea: The presents of the
wicked are pure poison. (58)

-Jason seems to feel guilty about the way everything is going down. By denying his help in exile, Medea keeps him from easing his conscience. It's yet another way that she gets revenge on her husband.


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