Medea has been enraged from the beginning, and now with Jason sharing his side of the story we finally get to his reasoning for his actions. He actually seems like he has some sense out of the two of them. Here you have Medea, this mad and stubborn woman who will not open her mind and listen to what anyone has to say to her. All she wants is to do what she wants to do. Then you have Jason, he's being reasonable about the whole situation and trying to explain to her why he did what he did. He tells Medea in spite of her wishing bad things on him that "I care for your well-being"(line 460). Here, Jason is being the bigger person and putting how mad he could get aside. If he wanted he could just argue back with her and that would get them nowhere. Jason even goes as far as offering her resources once she is exiled because he could never think badly of her. However, Medea is too stubborn and too prideful to accept his offers. Medea here is not thinking with a clear mind and how much he wants to help her. She's only thinking of her being betrayed and hurt. But she has to also think about her kids which is what she's failing to do. Now with hearing Jason's side it's arguable that what he did was wrong. He could've gone about leaving her in a different way or personally told her but he had valid reason to do so. Is Jason really wrong for what he did? Or is Medea handling thesituation wrong?
Here is how Medea's trait of stubbornness is effecting her and how it can effect her in the long run also. 
Wrote something quite similar to yours, which makes me quite sick especially since I like yours more. I believe that Medea is an unlovable person, but that won't be as evident at this early a point in the story. Not that I know you too well, but you kind of remind me of Medea which is why I enjoyed this post so much, you are strongly opinionated and hard headed, and when people go against you or your ideas, you automatically brand them as an "enemy" just like Medea. Not to say you are unlovable... but then again I do not know you very well. Jason confused me when he first appeared because I believed that he would be very wicked, backhanding Medea and laughing at her for being banished from the land, but none of the above occurred. Either Euripides did his to show how crazy Medea must be, or to make us wait and see Jason's true colors. We'll wait, and we'll see. But we won't write the same thing again. Or we will be enemies.
ReplyDeleteI don't normally reply to comments but I think this needs one. Thank you for your opinion. I think we think alike, which I why we had similar posts. In a sense that kind of makes you like Medea too :)
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