Friday, October 14, 2016
Medea\'s Love for Jason
In the play Medea by Euripides we ar geted with a char who is about to go into deportee with her two children. Her husband has left each over(p) her for another and now Medea wants r regular(a)ge. She does this by way of presents and their destructiveness is conveyed through the event that she destroys all(prenominal)thing that ties her to Jason except Jason himself. The biggest sacrifice Medea had to attain was killing her children. She knew that she would not be able to win Gluace over on her side if she was to present the gifts, but her children would be a great deal more appealing as they are a symbolism of a new kind due to their inability of polish off harm. By sacrificing her children she is giving past the scarcely thing they had in common. Medea speaks to her children before sending them score and tells them your father took away your venture of happiness.  We see that Medea knows that this will trauma Jason and reflect how much he hurt her. Moreover, it conjures up the view that she is getting rid of all ties with Jason as she tells him, you were never loss to shame our bed and lam a pleasant intent and laugh at me  so he can be left to hurt on his own just equal he left Medea.\nMauss states that every gift has to be reciprocated and even though Glauce did not unfeignedly present Medea with any gift, Medea has to make it seem that she had already original one and is valuing it very much. That is what makes Medeas gift even more destructive. Her gifts were suppose to be acts of kindness and sense of taste as well as heathen norms. Medea even stresses the gratuity of reciprocation by stating that to carry out my children from exile I would get hold of up not only gold but my keep  Medeas indifference about losing her children and defying cultural norms shows how extreme the gifts she gave were.\nThere is no doubt that the gifts Medea gave were of high time value and worth. This is because not only are the gifts v ery luxurious, Medea is the daughter of the pansy in Colchis and is a...
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