Essays on Jason
Jason is an iconic figure from Greek mythology. He was the leader of the Argonauts and a great hero renowned for his courage, skill, and cleverness. He is best known for leading the quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece. As a child, Jason was brought up in secret by his maternal grandfather after he had been abandoned by his father King Pelias. As an adult, he set off with fifty men including Hercules on board their ship Argo to find a magical golden fleece which would help him secure back his rightful throne as king of Iolcus. After many trials and tribulations along their journey they eventually retrieved the fleece but not without cost; Hercules died in battle against some warriors sent by King Aeetes who wanted to keep hold of it. The story of Jason’s heroic exploits has become one that has been retold over hundreds of years through various forms such as poems, plays and films. It serves as an important reminder about how bravery and determination can lead us to achieve even our most impossible dreams – something that we should all strive towards in our everyday lives no matter how difficult things may seem at first glance.
Toni Morrison’s novels are, to a great extent, susceptible to an archetypal interpretation. Thus, Beloved has been considered, by the critical opinion, as having its roots in the myth of Medea which forms the subject of Euripides’ ancient tragedy. The story told by Morrison’s novel is the constructed mostly on what Kathleen Marks termed as […]
Medea and her family, including Jason are all outsiders, as the setting of this story is in Corinth, where Medea left her hometown for. They are all there as foreigners, hence they are all considered outsiders in the country. Medea is an outsider in 4 ways. Firstly, she is a foreigner like her family members. […]
Euripides’ Medea and Seneca’s Medea are the two surviving ancient tragedies of Medea. Both versions are drastically different and contrast in several aspects. Euripides portrays Medea as more human. She is the epitome of the oppressed housewife and only after her suffering is she capable of the crimes she committed. Seneca’s Medea is even more […]
Medea is a unique character who defies typical Greek societal norms and values of the time that the play was written. Despite being a woman, she possesses traits and characteristics typically associated with Greek heroes, including strength, power, intelligence, cunning, volatility, and independence. It’s possible that a typical Greek audience of the time (predominantly male) […]
No matter which one is chosen, state or family, it is apparent that misplaced loyalty can bring us to some sort f tragedy or even a fatality. In the beginning of the play Titus Androgenic , we are introduced to Titus, a brave warrior of Rome. It is so clear that he would do anything […]
The city of Thebes, torn by war, is the setting of Sophocles’ play Antigone. The absence of a true leader for many years has led to a dispute between Antigone’s two brothers over who should rule Thebes. Both Polyneices and Eteocles were brothers, but Polyneices was exiled before returning to the city with an invading […]
For centuries, people have read Euripides play “Medea” and pondered the question, “Does Euripides want to portray Medea as a witch or as a woman? ” When the play was first written, powerful women were perceived to be dangerous or commonly thought of as witches. No women were aloud to explore knowledge or to live […]
The notion of the ideal man presented in the play Medea, by Euripides, is an exceptionally important one in the context of 5th Century Athens, a culture based very much upon the importance of the man both in his household and the general society. In Greece during the time of the play, the ideal man […]
“To gain which is worth having, it may be necessary to lo lose everything else. ” A quote by Bernadette Devlin, which as I understand means that sometimes In our life there will come a point that we lose everything that we think is of value to us in order to gain what’s really valuable. […]
Throughout the chapters we have read, it seems that Medea has ever-changing plans in mind. She hasn’t seemed to stick to one plan yet, and is probably hesitant or maybe unwilling to carry it off. The questions arises as to whether or not these plans are empty threats, or whether she really intends to put […]
Euripides has a reputation for not like women, so we would expect there to be a great deal of scorn and an unsympathetic depiction of Medea coming from Euripidies. I have four parts to the way that my sympathies turn in Medea. Firstly I am sympathetic, then when we find Medea very scheming and plotting […]
Rating: I would rate this novel as 8 out of 10 for a few reasons. First, the author seems to know a lot about mythology, Greek and Roman. When he put the story all together, it relate a lot to the myth of Greek and Roman people, sometimes it seems to make the myth make […]
Circus Lady Circus lady is a play by Jason Miller. The play takes place in an apartment in a Puerco Rican ghetto in Bronx, New York. The apartment faces the streets. The apartment is really messy, and everywhere lays clothes, newspapers, magazines, and empty TV- dinners. The furniture is dirty, and covered in dust, and […]
