Claire Zachanassian- MEDEA by Abby Davey https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4 WHO IS MEDEA? Provide images, links and brief information about who/what this reference means. After you have represented who the character is then you need to find SIMILARITIES and DIFFERENCES between the reference and the character of CLAIRE. For each similarity/difference start a new post. You need to explain your choice with reference to the character of MEDEA and to the textual examples from Durrenmatt's text. en-us 2018-06-21 22:46:48 UTC 2023-01-19 13:14:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png Who is Medea? https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268175946
Medea was the daughter of King Aeetes and helped Jason (of Argonaut fame) to complete the three tasks to claim the Golden Fleece and escape the island of Colchis (by killing her brother to distract her father). She features prominently in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts and appeared in Hesiod's "Theogony" around 700 BC. ]]> 2018-06-22 02:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268175946 Similarities and Differences between Claire and Medea https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268176143 2018-06-22 02:47:30 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268176143 P 72 IS WHERE THE TEACHER CALLS HER MEDEA https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268176728 Teacher: "Mrs. Zachanassian! You are an injured, loving woman. You demand absolute justice. You remind me of a heroine from antiquity, of Medea. But because we understand you in the depths of your soul, you give us the courage to ask more of you: put away these disastrous thoughts of revenge, don't push u to the limit, help these poor, weak, but fundamentally decent people lead a slightly more dignified life, find it in your heart to let human kindness prevail!"

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Her response:
Claire: "Human kindness, gentlemen, is made for the purses of millionaires. With financial power like mine, you can afford yourself a new world order. The world made a whore of me, now I'll make a whorehouse of the world. Pay up or get off the dance floor. You want to join the dance? Only paying customers merit respect. And believe me, I'll pay. Gullen for a murder, boom times for a corpse. Get moving, you two!"]]> 2018-06-22 02:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268176728 Similarity: Jason abandoned Medea and married someone else. This is just like how Ill abandoned Claire and her children in the play. https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268176746 2018-06-22 02:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268176746 Difference: Medea takes revenge by killing her betrayer's wife and her own children, whereas Claire has her betrayer killed and otherwise leaves his family alone. They also lost their children in different ways; Medea killed hers while Claire's child died of sickness (after being taken from her by the government?). https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268177033 2018-06-22 02:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268177033 Difference: Claire wanted justice for being impregnated, the child dying, and her being forced out of the town and into prostitution. Medea was pissed that Jason went back on his promise to be with her and left her and her children to marry someone else. https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268177532 2018-06-22 02:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268177532 Difference: Medea marries Jason out of love, however Claire frequently divorces and marries multiple husbands because they have something she wants. https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268177733 2018-06-22 03:01:14 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268177733 Similarity: Both Claire and Medea exacted their "revenge" on their ex-lover for how they wronged them. https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268177837 2018-06-22 03:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268177837 Difference: In an act of revenge, Medea kills her child (with Jason). However, Claire loved her child (with Ill), which happened to die due to her circumstances. https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268177972 2018-06-22 03:04:09 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268177972 Differences: After fleeing, Medea is driven out by her new husband. However, this is the opposite in the play, where Claire drives out her husbands and finds new ones. https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268178262 2018-06-22 03:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268178262 Yo we need some links https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268178321 here is a good start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea]]> 2018-06-22 03:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268178321 The golden fleece https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268178512
]]> 2018-06-22 03:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268178512 The real golden fleece https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268178553 2018-06-22 03:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268178553 Differences: Medea fled to Western Asia when she had nothing left. However, Claire leaves Gullen to presumably return to and continue her wealthy life in the city. https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268178555 2018-06-22 03:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268178555 Difference: When Claire leaves she initially becomes a prostitute but Medea marries the King of Athens https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268178693 "I became a prostitute" (p 34)]]> 2018-06-22 03:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268178693 Difference: Medea killed their children in order to make Jason suffer. However, Claire wanted an eye for an eye in the form revenge for the death of their children. https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268179104 2018-06-22 03:18:34 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268179104 Similarities: Both Claire and Medea are manipulative. https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268179131 Medea will only help Jason get the golden fleece if Jason marries her. Similarly, Claire will only give the townspeople money if they kill Ill:
'I will tell you the condition. I will give you a billion, and with that billion I will buy myself justice.' (p. 31)
'One billion for Gullen, if someone kills Alfred Ill.' (35)]]> 2018-06-22 03:18:57 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268179131 https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268179261 2018-06-22 03:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268179261 Difference: Claire specifically publicized her revenge ("One billion for Gullen, if someone kills Ill" pg 35) and gave people a moral dilemma of wealth which means a more comfortable life or the ending of a human life. On the other hand, Medea's was more discreet, she just killed their children and fled to Athens. https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268179353 2018-06-22 03:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268179353 SIMILARITY: Due to their lovers' betrayals, both Medea and Claire set out to get revenge by 'destroying him'. BUT... a DIFFERENCE is the way that they get their revenge. https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268179541 When Medea got her revenge, she killed Jason's wife and children, including the child that they had. However, Claire got her revenge by having Ill be killed.
'I loved you. You betrayed me. But the dream of life, of love, of trust--this dream that was a reality once--I haven't forgotten that. I want to rebuild it with my billions, I will change the past, by destroying you.' (p. 98)]]> 2018-06-22 03:24:37 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268179541 Difference: Medea does not start out as poor whereas Claire is poor and works her way up. https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268179592 "As a matter of fact, I was a rather different child from the one described in the mayor's speech. I was beaten in school, and I stole those potatoes for the widow Boll, together with Ill, not to save the old panderer from dying of hunger" (p 30)]]> 2018-06-22 03:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268179592 Difference: Claire left Gullen in a positive fashion ("May she fare well. Precious is the freight consigned to her safekeeping." pg. 114). This asserts the presence Claire had over the population. However, Medea was forced to flee from the kingdoms which she killed her children to somewhere where she would be safe. https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268180200 2018-06-22 03:35:13 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268180200 Claire manipulated the townspeople into destroying Ill for her, with their own greed. Medea killed the princess of Corinth and her and Jason's own children to make him suffer. krithi_rai https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268180311 2018-06-22 03:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268180311 Difference krithi_rai https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268180348 Claire's motivation for Ill's death was more justice oriented (or at least others were convinced it was), while Medea's was straight up revenge. "Mrs. Claire Zachanassian is offering a billion provided you make amends for the wrong that was done to Mrs. Zachanassian in Gullen." (pg. 32) "I can afford justice. One billion for Gullen, if someone kills Alfred Ill." (pg. 35) ]]> 2018-06-22 03:37:53 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268180348 Claire is also referred to as 'my little sorceress' by Ill throughout the book. Medea is known in most stories as a sorceress and is also the niece of Circe, a goddess of magic and an enchantress. krithi_rai https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268180389 2018-06-22 03:38:31 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/q1lgbp9rqgl4/wish/268180389