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Medea
(Euripides)

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Medea, princess of far- off Colchis and granddaughter of the Sun-God Helios, betrayed her father to help the young hero Jason on his quest for the Golden Fleece. They flee to Corinth where they live as man and wife and Medea bears Jason two sons.The play opens with Medea?s Nurse conveying the devastating news that Jason is to abandon Medea for a politically advantageous marriage with the daughter of King Creon. The Nurse advises the tutor to keep the children away from Medea. She stares at them strangely and is clearly plotting vengeance. She only hopes it will be against enemies not friends. The Nurse now debates the situation and Medea?s dangerous moods with the Chorus of old women as Medea remains ominously within her chamber. Finally she emerges to speak to them. She speaks of the difficulties of being a woman; her entire fate resting on her relationship with her husband. She adds that that vulnerability is compounded by her status as a foreigner. In this speech she utters the famous declaration that she would rather stand three times in the line of battle than face childbirth once. She asks the Chorus to keep silence, if she finds any way to avenge the wrongs Jason has committed against her. The Chorus agree, accepting that Jason deserves punishment.King Creon now arrives and announces to Medea that she and her children must leave Corinth. He believes she is a danger to him and his daughter. Medea adopts a wheedling and submissive pose, emphasizing the helplessness of her and her children. Creon agrees that they can stay in Corinth till the following day ? she can surely do no mischief in that time!Once he has gone, Medea tells the Chorus that she now has enough time to fulfil her plans; she will destroy Creon, his daughter and Jason himself. Her only concern is where she will flee to once the deed is perpetrated, still she will die in the attempt if necessary.Jason now appears and rebukes Medea for bringing banishment upon herself and their children through her angry words. Medea rehearses all that Jason owes her and all she has given up for him. He tells Medea that this marriage is in fact in the interests of herself and their children as it aims at bringing him power and legitimacy. He offers Medea any money, connection or other assistance she might need to start her new life. She scornfully refuses. Jason then is satisfied that he has fulfilled all his obligations to her and leaves.Enter Aegeus, King of Athens, an old friend of Medea. He is indignant when he hears of Jason?s treatment of her and promises her a safe haven at Athens, should she ever turn up there. He leaves.Medea is exultant; the only barrier to her plans has been breached, now she has somewhere safe to escape to. She now unfolds her plans. She will persuade Jason to intercede to get Creon?s banishment revoked for her sons. To this end, they will visit Jason?s bride with gifts of a golden coronet and a beautiful robe. However, the robe will be steeped in corrosive poison and the coronet will be combustible, so the girl will die horribly once she puts them on. She will then go on to kill not Jason, but their own two little boys. Though she wavers and agonises heart-rendingly over the killing of the children, Medea successfully brings all these things to pass. Not only does Jason?s bride suffer and die, but her father, Creon, embraces his dying daughter and thus perishes with her. Jason comes running to confront Medea with the death of his new wife and father- in ?law, only to be told that Medea has killed their children too. He finds her above the palace, in a dragon-borne chariot, belonging to her grandfather Helios. She boasts unrepentantly of the grief and destruction she has wrought on him, then flies off, leaving him to rage and grieve helplessly.



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