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The Medea - Online Term Paper

The Medea

In Euripides play, "", Medea is an example of a women who suffered from her stolen innocence. She is a princess from the non-Greek land of Colchis. The outcome of her trials with her husband Jason has caused her to become the powerful, barbarian like women she portrays in the end of the play. Medea's memory of her young naďve self evokes her lost identity that leads her to her eventual ruthlessness. The center plot of the play is how Medea's barbarian origins originated from Jason's actions. His leaving her caused her to become the personification of revenge.
Medea fell in love with a man named Jason who was new to her homeland where she was safe and secure. She is taken from her land ...

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new bride now, "so Jason neglects his children" (62). This causes only more pain for Medea. Jason decided that he wanted to divorce Medea and marry the princess of Corinth, casting Medea aside as if they had never been married. Not only is Medea paying for the divorce, the two children are also effected by it. This sort of activity was acceptable for Greek standards, but not for Medea. Medea will not accept anything less until she feels Jason has felt the pain she herself has felt. "Medea questions herself, women and men after Jason dishonored her"
(67). She has come to re evaluate her own self, realizing she is not the same naďve young woman she once was. She is a powerful female capable of anything she puts her mind to.
Medea is now faced with yet another problem; she has been told that she is exiled from her new home. "Medea is exiled from the land because of Jason" (70). This new problem that has been put in front of her has angered her not only because she must leave, but ...

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Added: 5/31/2004 07:43:51 AM
Category: English
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