Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Medea\'s Love for Jason
In the play Medea by Euripides we ar breaked with a woman who is nearly to go into evict with her cardinal children. Her husband has left-hand(a) her for other and now Medea wants r evege. She does this by elan of returns and their destructiveness is conveyed through the fact that she destroys e realthing that ties her to Jason still Jason himself. The biggest sacrifice Medea had to make was putting to death her children. She knew that she would non be satisfactory to win Gluace over on her side if she was to present the gifts, nevertheless her children would be much much appealing as they argon a symbol of a new relationship receivable to their inability of causing harm. By sacrificing her children she is giving away the yet thing they had in common. Medea speaks to her children earlier sending them off and tells them your sky pilot took away your chance of happiness.  We externalize that Medea knows that this will injustice Jason and ponder how much he hurt h er. Moreover, it conjures up the idea that she is acquire rid of all ties with Jason as she tells him, you were never going to disconcert our bed and lead a pleasant life and antic at me  so he can be left to hurt on his feature just like he left Medea.\nMauss states that every gift has to be reciprocated and even though Glauce did not really present Medea with any gift, Medea has to make it face that she had already received i and is valuing it very much. That is what makes Medeas gift even more destructive. Her gifts were supposed to be acts of kindness and appreciation as well as cultural norms. Medea even stresses the point of word by stating that to save my children from exile I would give up not only gilded but my life  Medeas quietness about losing her children and defying cultural norms shows how extreme point the gifts she gave were.\nThere is no suspect that the gifts Medea gave were of high value and worth. This is because not only are the gifts very luxuri ous, Medea is the daughter of the king in Colchis and is a...
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