{"id":79,"date":"2008-09-22T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T14:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/09\/22\/the-list-of-plot-including-complications\/"},"modified":"2008-09-22T10:17:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T14:17:10","slug":"the-list-of-plot-including-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/09\/22\/the-list-of-plot-including-complications\/","title":{"rendered":"The List of Plot, including Complications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inciting incident-\u00a0 I agree that the inciting incident is definitely when Jason leaves Medea.\u00a0 Not that Creon's offer didn't cause him to leave, but as Glen said, he had a choice.\u00a0 This specific choice set the play we read into action.\u00a0 Had the offer been the inciting incident, we would have a play about Jason's choices.\u00a0 The stasis disrupted would have been Jason's view of his home, not the home that he leaves.\u00a0\u00a0Beginning Exposition-\u00a0 People generally have this covered.\u00a0 Medea and Jason met when Jason sailed to find the Golden Fleece.\u00a0 She helped him get it, and they fell in love.\u00a0 However, they were exiled and came to live in Corinth, where they were accepted as equals of the people in the city and gained their place.\u00a0 Creon is the ruler of Corinth and has a daughter, Glauce, whose hand in marriage was just offered to Jason by Creon.\u00a0 Jason accepts this offer, beginning the story.\u00a0 Also:\u00a0 Medea is sneaky, possibly magical, and has two sons by Jason.\u00a0 She is a descendent of the Sun God (Apollo\/Hyperion), and this could possibly be Euripides' way of telling the audience not to mess with the Gods.\u00a0Complications-\u00a0 The goal of the central character (Medea) is to have her revenge on Jason for breaking his marriage oath to her.\u00a0 The first and most obvious problem is tha Medea doesn't have much time to extract her revenge.\u00a0 Though she is given one day, she has a very short period of time to do what she intends to do.\u00a0 This is a climactic play, implied by the amount of time elapsing.\u00a0 Another point of stress comes from Medea's safety as she is carrying out her plan and afterwards as well.\u00a0 This complication is Aolved by Aegeus' promise of asylum in Athens in exchange for her "powers."\u00a0 I'm not sure about other complications, maybe her children are a complication to her plan but it seems like they are simply another accessory to her plot.\u00a0 Plus, if they are a complication she gets rid of said complication pretty easily.\u00a0Crisis-\u00a0 Not a lot to say, the person who did crisis covered what's going on.\u00a0 The physical action that one would call the crisis is the poisoning of Glauce, which causes her and her father's deaths.\u00a0 This leads to her full destruction of Jason's life.\u00a0Climax\/Reversal-\u00a0 Again, already been said by others, but the climax is the realization of Medea's revenge.\u00a0 She murders her children, his children, and thereby ends his legacy.\u00a0 She emasculates Jason, here, by destroying his lineage, his blood line.\u00a0 It seems that for most of the time before the play began Jason was always taking<\/em> from Medea, but now the roles have reversed and she is the one taking from Jason.\u00a0 The position of power has reversed.\u00a0\u00a0Resolution-\u00a0 So we have a newfound stasis in the play.\u00a0 Jason loses his childen, fianc\u00c3\u00a9 and soon to be father in law, while Medea ascends into the heavens with the bodies of her children.\u00a0 DO NOT mess with the Gods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inciting incident-\u00a0 I agree that the inciting incident is definitely when Jason leaves Medea.\u00a0 Not that Creon's offer didn't cause him to leave, but as Glen said, he had a choice.\u00a0 This specific choice set the play we read into action.\u00a0 Had the offer been the inciting incident, we would have a play about Jason's … Continue reading The List of Plot, including Complications<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","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\/79","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\/487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}