{"id":69,"date":"2008-09-21T11:55:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T15:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/09\/21\/crisis-and-climax-reversal-and-resolution\/"},"modified":"2008-09-21T11:55:30","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T15:55:30","slug":"crisis-and-climax-reversal-and-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/09\/21\/crisis-and-climax-reversal-and-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis and Climax, Reversal and Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

While crisis and climax seem similar enough to be mistaken for each other, Medea<\/em>‘s crisis and climax are two separate events which work together to create the highest tension of the play.\u00a0 The crisis is the death of Glauce and Creon.\u00a0 In one short event, both Jason’s fiance and his future father-in-law are dead.\u00a0 With them go his hopes of fame and fortune for himself and his sons.\u00a0 Already devastated by this, Jason is set up for the final blow of the climax.\u00a0 Medea, who has already destroyed Jason’s hopes for upward mobility, goes on to kill their children.<\/p>\n

The reversal that occurs with these actions is an act of total revenge on Jason.\u00a0 First, he loses those who would help him move up in the world; next, he loses his entire reason for leaving Medea in the first place.\u00a0 He now has nothing and no one except Medea, which is the position in which Medea found herself at the beginning of the play.\u00a0 Their roles have been switched, and now Jason is at her mercy. \u00a0 Jason demands the bodies of his sons, much as Medea begged to keep them when she discovered that she had been exiled.\u00a0 Just as Jason denied her requests, Medea now rejects his.\u00a0 In an ironic parody of Jason’s thirst for upward mobility, Medea ascends to the skies in Apollo’s chariot, taking her sons’ bodies with her.\u00a0 Jason is left at the end with no family, having caused their deaths, feeling much as Medea did when she left her grieving father in Colchis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While crisis and climax seem similar enough to be mistaken for each other, Medea‘s crisis and climax are two separate events which work together to create the highest tension of the play.\u00a0 The crisis is the death of Glauce and Creon.\u00a0 In one short event, both Jason’s fiance and his future father-in-law are dead.\u00a0 With … Continue reading Crisis and Climax, Reversal and Resolution<\/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-69","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\/69","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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}