Someone able to read my Medea essay for me please. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Thank you
In the
captivating play, ‘Medea’, Euripides explores the strife that may exist between husband and wife through actions that are primarily lead by passion and ‘fierce emotions’.
You are judging the play, it deviates from your academic tone that you showed throughout your essay. Good embedded quotes in your intro. The heart of the play lies within Medea’s attempt at seeking her own form of justice in the male-dominated society of 480 BC Greece. The play charts Medea’s emotional transformation, a progression from suicidal despair to sadistic fury
;and her devoted love towards Jason, to her unspeakable destruction of him. Medea, feeling obliged to some form of revenge for being dishonored, embarks on a rally of crime in which she believes is the ‘terrible but necessary’ thing to do
; to redeem herself and bring justice and honor to the female sex. Nonetheless, the central characters of the play
; the Nurse, Jason and the Chorus immensely condemn Medea’s
expenditure (expenditure sounds like she went shopping, which is something a woman would do.. ouch pls dont kill me.. but a different word such as 'actions' or 'exertions' or 'efforts' would satisfy better in this context) and do not believe that it brought injustice to not only Jason, but also the innocent victims of Medea’s witchcraft.
Some things from the intro. Try to not show a biased view of the text; such as mentioning it was captivating, for me i didn't connect with the novel, which is why i wont be talking about it on the exam. I changed a few of your commas to a semicolon. There is just a few words that dont apply in the context. However you do show a good knowledge of text and you use embedded quotes well Jason’s abandonment and dishonoring of Medea serves to assist in her desires for justice and revenge. Euripides opens the play with the Nurse foreshadowing, and hence informing the audience, of the recent events that have
lead led to the current conflict between Medea and Jason, which proves to encircle the majority of the play’s plot. Medea, ‘utterly destroyed’, has nothing to live for; hence she ‘surrenders her body to her sorrows, pining away in her tears’. Jason’s abandonment has struck Medea so unexpectedly and because she had sacrificed all, ‘her heart unhinged in her love for Jason’, Medea now has nothing, ‘no mother, no brother, no fatherland’, and at the beginning scenes of the play, Medea is at the outset of her vulnerability. Through the Nurse and the Chorus’ continuous downplay of Jason, the audience is encouraged to sympathize with Medea and understand her need for justice, because she is rightfully obliged to ‘exact revenge from Jason’. Ultimately, Medea’s unfortunate circumstances grant her the right to seek justice, for she was ‘wronged unprovoked’.
Good paragraph just a few things i picked up. Its best to analyze what Medea did for Jason. From what i observe, is why should i sympathize with Medea? True Jason acted like she was his little bitch but what did she do? Maybe its best to mention how she helped Jason, and then got back stabbed. Such as helping him to get the Golden Fleece, and receiving no recognition. This would increase the level of sympathy that Medea receives from the reader. I also like the manipulation of your words, that Medea has nothing..'no brother'. Thats cos she killed him :'), I wouldn't include that she doesn't have a brother, because it sets her up as a murderer, cos there is no justification why she killed him. Although Medea is entitled to some form of revenge, the audience, Jason, Chorus and the Nurse
all condemn Medea’s sense and intentions of justice.
Its either sense of justice, or intentions for justice. Intentions of justice doesnt sound the best Medea’s perception of revenge is far off from justice. The targeting of innocent characters
(would most likely) evoke a sense of outrage in the audience of the play as well as the Nurse and Chorus,
and upon discovering that Medea is planning to murder Glauce, King Creon and her two children
stop here. The sympathy that Euripides initially creates for Medea fades into an underlying sense of disgust and shame. The Chorus and the Nurse initially sympathize with Medea and understand the fact that she had been cursed with a ‘sea of woes’ and miseries, and hence acknowledge the normal human nature of revenge.
This sentences does not fit with the flow of the paragraph. Something like 'The Chorus and Nurse initially acknowledge Medea's 'seas of woes' and then continue with 'However, when Medea.. However, when Medea reveals her true intentions, the Corinthian women and the Nurse retaliate and censure her ‘lioness’ morality, as the princess, King Creon and the two children had ‘no role in their father’s (Jason) wrongdoing’, and did not deserve to pay the price of Medea’s violent and immoral nature.
Surprisingly, though, Medea seems to be completely satisfied and fulfilled at committing the most ‘unholiest of deeds’. Despite her actions being heavily censured, Medea’s ameliorated witchcraft and manipulation
allowed allows her to fulfill the deed, and successfully murder
s the Princess, Creon and her two children. Medea now acknowledges that what she has done will haunt her for the rest of her life, but she dismisses this at the thought of ‘stinging’ Jason’s heart, as all her ‘sorrows are well repaid if you (Jason) cannot laugh at me’.
Fucking good points Medea has officially proved a tragic hero, she herself feels accomplished and justified at her crimes, because her ‘fury against Jason is stronger than her counsels of softness’ and she brought ‘honor to the name of women’, that is, only in her eyes, as she flees the murder scene in a chariot handed down by her grandfather, the Sun-god, leaving Jason to vividly regret his abandonment.
This is a deus ex machina. It would be best to include why Euripides allows her to escape. Something like 'Euripides use of Deus ex machina, as Medea escapes unpunished in a chariot drawn by dragons, supports Medea's cause and leaves Jason to vividly regret his abandonment Good essay
u should be fine for the exam. I would give this an 8.5/10