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1.watch the following on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdtDeZZ4RPk
2.read the following article.
http://www.wilsonsschool.sutton.sch.uk/dept/classics/clciv/files/stacks_image_107_15.pdf
Take notes on what you do not understand and bring them to class, or do a google search and try to do some sleuthing.
3. Make sure you get a copy of the medea text ASAP, seen here
http://www.amazon.com/Medea-Other-Plays-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140449299/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377736679&sr=1-1&keywords=euripides+penguin
I encourage you to buy it used.
Answer the following question in about 100 words.
4. Medea is obviously a very complicated character. After watching the play, do you still sympathize with Medea despite her horrible act? Why would the author take such a drastic step to undermine Medea as a sympathetic character?
I don't sympathize with Medea in any sort of way, shape or form. To murder your creations to spite a former lover, husband, father is inexcusable. What did her children do to deserve what she did to them? Nothing. They were Jason's children, that's all. They had not betrayed their mother. I don't think they were even aware of the actions around them. Maybe they saw that their parents were no longer together, but about their mother's despair; they probably weren't even told. The children were 2 innocent beings involved in something that had nothing to do with them. I can't exactly grasp why the author would even bother to make Medea seem like a sympathetic character, clearly she's a murderer that can't grasp the fact that Jason fell out of love with her. She also went out her way to murder the King's daughter. She was ridden with jealousy and rage which eventually lead her to kill her own children. For that, I cannot fell sympathy for her. She just doesn't deserve it from me.
ReplyDeleteI do still sympathize with Medea after all of her horrible acts. Can you imagine the grief you have to be feeling for you as a mother to kill your own children. She said "I loathe you more than I love them" in reference to her kids, to me speaks volumes of the pain Medea felt towards Jason. Medea could not grasp how a man who she loved could leave her for another woman after everything she has done for him including probably betraying her own family. She wanted him to hurt just as much as is and continues to in Medea's brain hurting Jason was the only way for her own pain to end. The author I believe took such a drastic step to gradually damage Medea's sympathetic character because he wanted to show just how hurt and betrayed Medea felt. He wanted to show the other side to how things can happen rather than moving on and just dealing with the pain. What if you can't? They do say "Hell has no fury like a woman scorned," and Medea is a prime example of that.
ReplyDeleteI still sympathize with Medea because I have not met one woman who has not doing something stupid in the name of love. When someone hurts you, if you don’t have the strength to forgive them, your hate for them will consume you. Medea had betrayed her own family for this man, she had nowhere to go, and no one to turn to because all she wanted to do was be with the man she loved. I can only imagine the pain she was in to not only put yourself in harm’s way by killing powerful people but also killing people you love dearly. I think the author tried to undermine Medea as a sympathetic character because she let her love for Jason consume her to the point that she could not think clearly and ended up with nothing just as he did in the end; she would still be away from her children and him.
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ReplyDeleteI still sympatized with Medea after watching film because i can feel how Medea loved Jason. She killed her brother, she gave up everything for Jason and she escaped with jason from her home land. She had only one person can love, trust, and rely on. However Jason's act of betrayal makes Medea fury and rage.YES ! She killed kimg's daughter and her two kids to avenge her husband's betrayal. i can say It is bad action but she didnt have anything to go back or any place to escape from reality. On the other hand, i think author makes Medea as a sympathetic character because he might share Medea's soft, warm and deep love can change to huge, terrible , and cold revenge.
ReplyDeleteMedea is the ultimate pitiful character. At the commencement of the play, you sympathize with her agony over the betrayal of her husband which is evident in her words and actions; that she has been driven to insanity is unmistakable.
ReplyDeleteYet once she murders her own children, you wonder why a mother would commit such a despicable act in the name of vengeance? Was the murder of Glauce and Creon not enough? I can almost understand that and her need to annihilate Jason, but to use the children as pawns and weapons is unforgivable
As for the author, he is portraying that Madea’s need for retribution is ultimate
I sympathize with Medea in a way she devoted her life to a man that she loved, and for him to betray her and turn his back on her for his selfish needs of power. For that Medea was driven insane by a broken heart. A broken heart will drive a woman of the deep end that revenge against the man that has made her suffer will make her have no remorse of what she will do. In the end she succeeded with these horrible acts against him and made him suffer as she did. Do I agree with her killing her children? No but it was her way of revenge. All women need at least a little revenge after having their heart broken. Not as extreme as Medea went but it showed how much pain she had. The author undermined her character to show what we all have in common with her; because if he had showed her killing her children immediately we would have said that we are nothing like we could have never committed such crime.
ReplyDeleteI Do not sympathize with Medea, this is because she has no sympathy for anyone else, how can you sympathize with someone like that. She sacrificed her son's life for revenge. What person in their right mind would do something like that. You cannot fight unjust with unjust or else you will always be in pain. I believe the author undermined her as being sympathetic because she didn't care about anyone else but her self. She was evil and filled with vengeance. How can you sympathize with someone like that?
ReplyDeleteI do not sympathize with Medea’s act of killing her children but I do sympathize with some of the emotions that tormented her and made her feel miserable, I believe when people reach a certain stage of pain and anger is easy to loose track of reality and just like she describe her hate and evilness as a never ending hole it was unstoppable for her, but the actions were took to an extreme that cannot be justified as a normal behavior.
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