Thursday, October 27, 2016
The Suffering of Medea
Medea is an passing tragic work on where distributively scene brings most more(prenominal) suffering than the last. The very prototypic line of the play says, I wish the Argo had never tag sail (pg.528, line 1). This extract already puts the reader in a place of tribulation and disappointment. Each event in the story has something horrific overtake to them that either immensely alters or ends his or her life. With totally of the disquiet that is canvasn though out the story, whiz 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 spiritual domain in the beginning, but by the end of the play, Jason is the character who ultimately suffers the most in Medea.\nAt the start of the play, it appeared that Medea was the character who suffered the most. When she premiere makes her entrance in the play, she is in agonizing pain about her economise Jason leaving her for a new marriage with the princess of Corinth. The adjudge says, She wont daub food; surrendering to pain, she melts away her geezerhood in tears, ever since she intimate of this injustice (529, 29). Medea feels that Jason has taken everything from her and has odd her with no reason to live. She repeatedly claims that she only wants to die. This situation is til now scant(p) to relate to in todays time and it makes the reader pity Medea. She is a mother of two junior children whose husband has decided to disappear her for another woman, leaving his family and the ones who have it off him behind. During the conversation she has with Jason, she displays her feelings of disgust and reveal 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 wrong for Medea . First, her husband leaves her, and she is soon going to be exiled from the...
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