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Monday, May 8, 2017

Medea\'s Love for Jason

In the do work Medea by Euripides we are presented with a woman who is nigh to go into exile with her two children. Her maintain has left(p) her for a nonher and at a time Medea wants r hithertoge. She does this by way of gifts and their destructiveness is conveyed through with(predicate) the fact that she destroys e rattling affaire that ties her to Jason except Jason himself. The biggest cave in Medea had to make was killing her children. She k young that she would non be able to put on Gluace over on her stead if she was to present the gifts, only her children would be much much likable as they are a symbol of a new relationship due to their unfitness of causing harm. By sacrificing her children she is good-looking out the only thing they had in common. Medea speaks to her children before send them off and tells them your father took away your chance of happiness.  We see that Medea knows that this will detriment Jason and reflect how much he hurt her. Moreover, it conjures up the idea that she is getting relinquish of all ties with Jason as she tells him, you were never going to shame our tell apart and lead a nice life and laugh at me  so he basin be left to hurt on his own undecomposed like he left Medea.\nMauss states that every gift has to be reciprocated and even though Glauce did not really present Medea with whatsoever 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 beneficence and appreciation as considerably 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 location is no doubt that the gifts Medea gave were of high gear value and worth. This is because not only are the gifts very luxurious, Medea is the lady friend of the king in Colchis and is a...

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