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Question: How is Medea portrayed in this passage? How consistent is this with her portrayal elsewhere in the play?
(The play Medea play written by Euripides - first produced 431 BCE)
Answer: Firstly we see in this passage Medea’s hatred for Jason ‘I loathe your prosperous future’. Medea highlights to focus on her ex-husbands future as it is this that caused there separation. Jason had a future laid out in front with a wife and two children but Jason decided this was not enough for himself so he changed his own future and gained a new wife. This shows to the reader how Medea’s actions can be justified up to some extent as it was Jason who broke their oath. The situation in Medea’s words is ‘galling her heart’ she has taken her heart and all that is left is bitterness. Next in the passage comes Medea appealing indirectly to the audience to take pity on her and not Jason. ‘I am alone’ this reveals to the audience what effect it is having on her. She highlights this in a way to change her image as to what we have seen of her previous to this, vindictive and col...(short extract)
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- Subject: Classics
- Course: Classical Literature
- Level: A-Level
- Year: Not applicable
- Mark: Not available
- Words: 859
- Date submitted: September 29, 2014
- Date written: March, 2014
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 6087
