Medea: Summary

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such as Medea/Jason's home, and the palace
of the king and princess are also spoken of and used in the play. It has
an ancient Greek setting as well.

Theme: "What goes around comes around."

The theme of revenge in the sense of Medea's strong desire to seek revenge
on Jason.

Another possible theme of Medea may be that at times a punishment of
revenge should justify the crime - no matter how severe. Only a person in
such a situation (and greater beings) may know what to action to take in
this position.



Characters: Medea - The strong willed woman who would do anything for her
husband is victimized by him and turns deadly. After going to a great
extent to help Jason - killing people to be with him and married to him -
he turns around and marries a younger princess and leaves Medea and their
two children with nothing. This deeply angers Medea - her tragic flaw
appears to be an over excessive sense of revenge - who goes absolutely
berserk and kills the princess and her children ...

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and assistance to Medea. She
provides the audience with background information on the play and puts
pieces together of the "big picture." The Nurse begs Medea to not do
anything rash because of Jason but says that she knows Medea will so that
foreshadows the though of tragedy in the play. She also sympathizes Medea
but as soon as Medea is not looking, the Nurse criticizes her as being
somewhat over reactive.

King Creon - King Creon finds disfavor on Medea for many reasons. Most of
all he believes she may decide to kill his daughter out of spite.



Quotes: ú "O God, do you hear it, this persecution, these my sufferings
from this hateful woman, this monster, murderess of ...

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