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This paper posits that in order to redeem herself of all the deaths she has caused in freeing Jason, Medea must make the ultimate sacrifice, her children, for two purposes: to save herself, and to save the country from the future reign of Jason. No references. JVmedea.rtf
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true of the well-known story about the woman who killed her sons to avenge her divorce. But is that what occurred in the play? It cannot have been what it
seems. Medea receives grace from the gods for her actions in the play because she has made the ultimate sacrifices for their ends.
It seems realistic at first that killing her children is not a sacrifice for Medea; she says she despises them at the beginning of the play, but before she kills
her sons, she feels empathy for them and balks at her plans. This is a woman who has never balked at killing before, so it must be concluded that, for
her, killing the children was a sacrifice. The student may want to state that as the play opens, Medea has learned the heartlessness
of husband Jason, who has left her to marry into the house of Kreon, ostensibly so that he can become the ruler of the country.
She is morose because she has discovered this treachery too late and she is being punished for all she has done to encourage him. She realizes that
she has aided and abetted a foul creature, and that the creature must be destroyed. Just as he married her for his own
gain, he is marrying, not a woman, but the house of Kreon. It is Jasons desire to be at the top, and Medea understands that it is her business to
topple him before he reaches it. He can never be allowed an exalted state. In order to do stop him, she must sacrifice even more than she has already, which
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