Medea

I found the story of Medea to be very interesting for many reasons. One thing i really liked about it was the way characters were portrayed one example is the character of Jason who plays a noble hero in one story but in this story he plays a slime ball who doesn't even care for his wife and children. i also found the ending to be very interesting and found it very cruel of Medea to kill here own children as revenge. I also enjoy how it is like a spin off of another great Greek story.

Medea, John Torres

Medea was a very interesting tragedy. The main theme of the story was revenge. Medea's reasoning for killing her children was to get back at Jason. It was the only way that she felt she could justly get back at Jason. She didn't just want to destroy him but she wanted to destroy his children and his name. Medea's actions showed selfishness on her part because she took her anger out on her innocent children in an effort to get back at Jason.

Medea

Medea was an interesting story, because it's dealing with the topic matter of tragedy and sympathies was so radically different than what was the supposed norm. In most stories, the protagonist and the main person to rally behind is the male lead, but in Medea we instead focus on Jason's wife, Medea. This radically changes the perspective, and allows for a different mood to permeate throughout the work. Surprisingly enough, Jason is still portrayed as the rational actor throughout the tragedy, despite his being clearly at fault for abandoning his very supporting wife. Her plan at revenge is well thought out, although the motivation behind it can still classify the actual revenge as an act of "passion", due to a supposed failing of the mentality of women. Jason's use of logic as the reasons for his abandonment of his wife should endear the audience to his cause, but the idea of his ditching his life partner for such a trivial reason still lands the majority of the audience in favor of Medea.

Medea

Medea by Euripedes was one of the most interesting stories, in my opinion, that we have read so far this semester. Once I began reading this story it was very easy to sit there and finish. I found this story to be very passionate and the character of Medea was powerful and enthralling. The character of Jason mostly annoyed me because I found him to be a coward. He was a true smooth talker when he was talking to Medea and trying to win her favor back and sooth her anger. I have mixed feelings about the ending, mostly because it was so ambiguous. I also, felt that Medea let Jason get off too easily.

Courtney Lum

What is interesting about the tragic play of Medea is how the audience is compelled to sympathize with Medea instead of feeling emotions of hate and disgust. Even though she murders her own children, along with the king and the princess, the audience is still not compelled true disgust and dislike towards her character; instead we are lead to commiserate in her sadness, justifying her actions due to the neglect and betrayal of her husband, Jason. And even though we know that murdering her own children is distasteful and truly a terrible sin, we understand that her intentions were only to seek revenge on the husband that scorned her. Jason’s lack of remorse and complete betrayal and Medea’s complete and utter devastation from his actions shows the reader what compels Medea do perform such terrible deeds. Even so, Medea is also aware that her actions are terrible and blameworthy, yet deems it necessary to punish her unfaithful husband in every way that she can.

Medea

The tragedy Medea begins in a state of conflict. Jason and Medea have established their own family in Corinth when Jason decides too leave Medea and his two children to marry the daughter of Creon, the King of Corinth. It is her loyalties to her former husband that has made Jason's abandonment even more difficult for her to grasp; she is now intent on seeking revenge. As the play continues we discover Medea's own internal conflict. Her grief has drove her to madness and leads her to kill her own two children. I enjoyed reading the play and can sympathize with her when Jason left her, however, as the story progressed I began to feel that she was just a crazy woman. What kind of mother kills her children? I also liked this play because it wasn't as boring as I thought it would be.

Medea

Even though the play of Medea is centered around the tragedy of Medea, Euripides didn't show any sympathy to her like Aeshylus did to Clytemnestra in the tragedy of Agamemnon. Compare to Medea, her husband, Jason seems to play like a more righteous role even he betrays Medea ultimately. Jason is almost created as a hero on his way to Colchis because he has taken numerous adventures and succeed. In Jason's mind, he regards all of his successes to the gifts from gods. Based on this, he must overestimate his ability and neglect the help from others like Medea. Thus, when Jason gets a chance to choose between Medea and a princess later, he is surely to choose the princess because he wants to be rich. He must think that this opportunity is also predetermined by gods. On the contrary, Medea think that Jason's survival and successes should contribute to her. For helping Jason, Medea even killed her father and betrayed her country. She also overestimates her influence on Jason's life. In my opinion, the conflicts between these two different thoughts drag out the tragedy. So, sometimes human should be less selfish to earn a happier life.