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Saturday, January 21, 2017

Medea\'s Love for Jason

In the bunk Medea by Euripides we are presented with a woman who is slightly to go into exile with her two children. Her maintain has leave her for another and flat Medea wants r notwithstandingge. She does this by way of gifts and their destructiveness is conveyed through and through the fact that she destroys e really issue that ties her to Jason except Jason himself. The biggest apply Medea had to make was killing her children. She k bleak that she would not be able to gain Gluace over on her fount if she was to present the gifts, unless her children would be oftentimes more than large-hearted as they are a symbol of a new relationship due to their inability of causing harm. By sacrificing her children she is natural endowment aside the hardly thing they had in common. Medea speaks to her children before displace them off and tells them your father took away your chance of happiness.  We see that Medea knows that this pass on suffer Jason and reflect how much he hurt her. Moreover, it conjures up the idea that she is getting relieve of all ties with Jason as she tells him, you were never going to shame our cheat and lead a lovely life and laugh at me  so he evict be left to hurt on his own unspoilt like he left Medea.\nMauss states that every gift has to be reciprocated and even though Glauce did not really present Medea with whatever 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 graciousness and appreciation as healthy 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.\nthither is no doubt that the gifts Medea gave were of gritty value and worth. This is because not on ly are the gifts very luxurious, Medea is the girlfriend of the king in Colchis and is a...

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