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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Medea\'s Love for Jason

In the dictation Medea by Euripides we are presented with a woman who is about to go into exile with her two children. Her husband has unexpended her for a nonher and at one time Medea wants r up to nowge. She does this by way of gifts and their destructiveness is conveyed with the fact that she destroys e actually matter that ties her to Jason except Jason himself. The biggest relinquish Medea had to make was killing her children. She k raw(a) that she would not be able to move on Gluace over on her look if she was to present the gifts, still her children would be overmuch more than appeal as they are a symbol of a new relationship due to their softness of causing harm. By sacrificing her children she is gift absent the only thing they had in common. Medea speaks to her children before direct them off and tells them your father took away your chance of happiness.  We see that Medea knows that this exit scathe Jason and reflect how much he hurt her. Moreover, it conjures up the idea that she is getting disembarrass of all ties with Jason as she tells him, you were neer going to shame our hindquarters and lead a gentle life and laugh at me  so he back end be left to hurt on his own barely like he left Medea.\nMauss states that every gift has to be reciprocated and even though Glauce did not really present Medea with each gift, Medea has to make it seem that she had already received one and is valuing it very much. That is what makes Medeas gift even more destructive. Her gifts were supposed to be acts of charity and appreciation as tumesce as cultural norms. Medea even stresses the point of reciprocation by stating that to save my children from exile I would give up not only gold but my life  Medeas indifference about losing her children and defying cultural norms shows how extreme the gifts she gave were.\n in that respect is no doubt that the gifts Medea gave were of high school value and worth. This is because not only are the gifts very luxurious, Medea is the miss of the king in Colchis and is a...

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