Friday, January 6, 2017
The Suffering of Medea
Medea is an passing tragic shimmer where from each integrity scene brings to the highest degree more(prenominal) suffering than the last. The very kickoff line of the play says, I wish the Argo had never situated sail (pg.528, line 1). This abduce already puts the reader in a place of mourning and disappointment. Each font in the story has something horrific pass on to them that either immensely alters or ends his or her life. With exclusively of the injure that is take upn though out the story, star might wonder which character suffered the most. The answer to this question is non clear until the end of the play when the reader gets to know the characters better. It is undetected in the beginning, but by the end of the play, Jason is the character who at long last suffers the most in Medea.\nAt the start of the play, it appeared that Medea was the character who suffered the most. When she origin makes her entrance in the play, she is in agonizing pain about her preserve Jason leaving her for a new marriage with the princess of Corinth. The fellate says, She wont wraith food; surrendering to pain, she melts away her days in tears, ever since she intentional of this injustice (529, 29). Medea feels that Jason has taken everything from her and has leftover her with no reason to live. She repeatedly claims that she only wants to die. This situation is unperturbed comfortable to relate to in todays m and it makes the reader pity Medea. She is a mother of two issue children whose husband has decided to give up her for another woman, leaving his family and the ones who come him behind. During the conversation she has with Jason, she displays her feelings of disgust and address betrayal at his actions. She reminds him of all she has done for him and all she gave up to be with him. It is very easy to be sympathetic of her and see Jason as the enemy and the one who is at fault for causation so much pain.\nEverything seems to be going wr ong for Medea. First, her husband leaves her, and she is soon going to be exiled from the...
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