{"id":52,"date":"2008-09-16T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/09\/16\/characterclassification-of-medea\/"},"modified":"2008-09-21T19:06:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T23:06:50","slug":"characterclassification-of-medea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/09\/16\/characterclassification-of-medea\/","title":{"rendered":"Character\/Classification of Medea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Under Aristotelian analysis, Medea can be classified as a character who is larger than life.\u00a0 The implication's of Medea's actions exceed Medea herself.\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Medea, greatly disturbed by her husband's infidelity, plots against her own King and husband in an effort to satisfy her need for revenge.\u00a0 First, Medea sacrifices her belonging to the state of Thebes and security for her revenge.\u00a0 By displaying "sullen looks" and "angry thoughts," Medea attracts Creon's attention.\u00a0 After Creon exiles her, Medea does not beg for forgiveness.\u00a0 As she proves to be a master of manipulation as the play progresses, Medea does not use this power to stay in Thebes.\u00a0 Instead, she only asks for a day, so she can implement her plan that will ruin Creon, his daughter, and Jason.\u00a0 A fundamental part of Medea's plan involves fleeing from Thebes after she has carried out the deed against the three that have humiliated her.\u00a0 By fleeing Thebes, she sacrifices her own security and contact with Thebes.\u00a0 When she begs for another day, Medea has no knowledge of Aegeus’ coming, so it is very probable that Medea may have envisioned herself wandering the land outside of Thebes looking for a city state that would take in the murderer of a King.(" Nor have I any landing-place <\/font><\/a>to come at in my trouble")\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By plotting against Creon, Medea goes against the Greek ideals of loyalty to the King and City State.\u00a0 Additionally, by plotting against her husband, Medea goes against Patriacal Greek Values.\u00a0 "Divorce is not honourable to women," \u00a0"a captive I from a <\/font><\/a>foreign shore," "without <\/font><\/a>resenting the yoke, our life is a happy one; if not, ’twere best to die. <\/font><\/a>But when a man is vexed with what he finds indoors, he goeth forth and <\/font><\/a>rids his soul of its disgust, betaking him to some friend or comrade of <\/font><\/a>like age; whilst we must needs regard his single self" are all quotes from Medea's mouth that identify these values of Greek society.\u00a0 By plotting against her husband, Medea is breaking the accepted norms of Greek society.\u00a0 She suggests that a wife has a right to retaliate against the wrongs committed by her husband.\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In an effort to get revenge with her husband, Medea also sacrifices her own children.\u00a0 Early in the course of the play, Medea states "I would gladly take my stand in battle <\/font><\/a>array three times o’er, than once give birth."\u00a0 Cutting of any ties to her family, and sacrificing the very children who have caused her much toil to bear, Medea murders her children in an effort to cause Jason great agony.\u00a0 Most importantly, Medea throws away a mother's bond to her children in an effort to get even with Jason.\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Medea can also be seen as the\u00a0antagonist within the play.\u00a0 She stands in the way of Jason’s plan of marrying Creon’s daughter and becoming\u00a0royalty.\u00a0 When Jason believes that he has finally accomplished his goal,\u00a0Medea implements her plan of revenge, killing both his would be wife(princess) and his would be father in law.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n

Important Characteristics to describe Medea- Proud, manipulative, vengeful.\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Under Aristotelian analysis, Medea can be classified as a character who is larger than life.\u00a0 The implication's of Medea's actions exceed Medea herself.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Medea, greatly disturbed by her husband's infidelity, plots against her own King and husband in an effort to satisfy her need for revenge.\u00a0 First, Medea sacrifices her belonging to the … Continue reading Character\/Classification of Medea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[706],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aristotle-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}