The stasis of Medea’s world before Euripides’ play is indeed precarious.\u00a0 Having fallen in love with Jason, Medea helps him to win the Golden Fleece against her father’s wishes, then kills her brother.\u00a0 She leaves Colchis and, in turn, loses everything she has ever known.\u00a0 Jason and Medea sail to Corinth, where she is essentially looked upon as a lower-class barbarian.\u00a0 This is compounded with her nature as an argumentative, vengeful woman with knowledge of magic. \u00a0 Living in an alien land where she is seen as a savage witch, her husband is her greatest support.\u00a0 In Medea’s time and place, that is a dangerous position for a woman indeed.<\/p>\n
The inciting incident which tips all of these factors out of balance is Creon’s offering of Glauce to Jason.\u00a0 At first glance, it seems that it could be Jason’s actual announcement that he is leaving Medea.\u00a0 However, it is obvious that Jason highly prizes his\u00a0social and political position. There is no way that he would refuse Creon’s offer of a young, beautiful bride who can bring him prestige. On the other hand, Jason is very aware of Medea’s nature and her magical abilities. He knows that she will react violently. Therefore, there is no other outcome that could occur from Creon’s offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The stasis of Medea’s world before Euripides’ play is indeed precarious.\u00a0 Having fallen in love with Jason, Medea helps him to win the Golden Fleece against her father’s wishes, then kills her brother.\u00a0 She leaves Colchis and, in turn, loses everything she has ever known.\u00a0 Jason and Medea sail to Corinth, where she is essentially … Continue reading Medea Plot: Buildup to the Inciting Incident<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}