go girl!!

حواستون باشه به زنی که براتون اژدها میکشه ، بخاطرتون به کشورش خیانت میکنه و برادرش رو میکشه؛ خیانت نکنید . چون قطعا میتونه برای عذاب دادنتون به راحتی حتی بچه‌هاتونم بکشه و بره با رقیب ازدواج کنه.

به نظر من مده آ با این که به نظر میرسید فقط به خاطر خیانت و عشقی که به جیسون داشت شروع کرد به انتقام گرفتن حتی ذره ای برای عشق انتقام نگرفت،اونا از دو فرهنگ متفاوت با اصول متفاوت بودن،همه چیز برای این بود که کفه ترازوی قدرت سمت خودش باشه و غرورش حفظ بشه ،اون داشت فکر میکرد چه چیزایی رو فدا کرده ،چه پل هایی رو پشت سرش خراب کرده وچه کارهایی به خاطر جیسون کرده ،آزادی ای که ازش سلب شده و ...حالا نمیتونست بزاره اون راحت از کنار اینا بگذره ،باید تاوان میداد .جیسون هم برای قدرت و ادامه و آینده خاندانش داشت دوباره ازدواج میکرد که بتونه بچه هایی داشته باشه که از خاندان سلطنتی باشن .شخصیت مده آ خیلی واسم ملموس نبود و انتظار داشتم زیرک تر باشهچیزی که برای من جالب بود این بود که برخلاف بیشتر نمایشنامه ها ‌،در اخربا تمام چیزهایی که همسرایان و جیسون و ..مبنی بر اینکه مده آ نمیتونه بدون مواجه شدن با عواقب کاری که انجام داده زندگی کنه ،همون طوری که توی کل نمایشنامه چندین بار اشاره شد مده آ زن عادی نبودو پیروزمندانه فرار کرد و به جیسون گفت که دستش به اون نمیرسه

There is scholarly evidence to support the idea that Euripides was hired by the people of Corinth to write this play to make Medea into a villain: not even crazy but a purely evil woman who would kill her own children. I did a paper on it in grad school. Of course I don't know where my paper is nor the citations but who needs references in an opinion piece? ;)

I did the research after I read The Dawn Palace, a young adult novel with a feminist take on the story. (That book was excellent in its own right, helping me to understand what it was like to live in that era, particularly as a woman. It's one of my very favorite books and I highly recommend it.)

I didn't mind the play but the inherent misogyny gave me pause even before I discovered that it was propaganda. I'm not disputing how well it was written but it was not enjoyable to me.

I read this for my Ancient History class. I was going to give a oral presentation on Greek Theatre and one of the great playwrights of that time Euripides and even though he really wasn't recognised as a good playwright back then, he is now remembered as one of the best playwrights from that time.

Medea is about a woman who kills her two children to get revenge on her husband, because he left her for a younger woman. That's basically the gist of the play. But damn is it an amazing play.

The monolouges. The writing. The characters. The concept and Medea's reasoning. All amazing. This is a must read for fans of Euripides or just people willing to read amazing plays.

And the cover, the childs hand print. It doesn't get creepier than that. The translation I read was easy to read but still very moving. I read it all in one afternoon and have read it a few times afterwards. It is alot to take in. But it is amazing!

JASON
"Oh children, what a terrible mother you had."
MEDEA
"Oh children, how you were destroyed by your father's disease."

Medea did what she had to do folks. did she girlboss a little too close to the sun ? maybe, but she's Helios' granddaughter, what did you expect ?

tbf tho jason was a dick

The ancient Greek playwright Euripides wrote "Medea," a tragedy of extreme vengeance. Passion and love turned into rage and revenge when Medea was spurned by Jason. Medea had risked everything for Jason during his quest for the treasure of the Golden fleece. Now, Jason was putting his political ambitions first and marrying the daughter of King Creon of Corinth.

Medea is a strong woman who uses deception and manipulation. The tormented woman thinks up the ultimate revenge, lashing out at Jason, even though it means killing people she loves in a brutal ending. Medea is the poster child for the popular line by William Congreve: "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

I found the new translation by Robin Robertson to be very readable with a helpful introduction.

n  “I understand too well the dreadful act
I'm going to commit, but my judgement
can't check my anger, and that incites
the greatest evils human beings do.”n


- Medea about to Kill her Children, Eugène Delacroix (1838.)

As terrible as Medea’s actions are at the end of the play, I can’t help but feel sorry for her (at least is some small way.) She murders her own children, but she was pushed to the brink of despair as the knife was placed in her hand by her own husband. And Euripides plays on this dynamic beautifully.

Does one wrong justify another? She gave absolutely everything to Jason. The gods compelled her to love him, and she did more ardently that I think she ever realised. She murdered for him, she fled her own kingdom and saved him from death. She bore his children and helped him rule. She gave him everything. Without her support he would have achieved nothing. And what does he do? He betrays her. Pity the man who would attract the ire of such a woman.

n  “Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”n

Medea is passionate and volatile, without any scruples, and when the person she loved most in the world abandons her for another woman, she only thinks of how she can get him back. She doesn’t care about what she will lose or who else she will hurt: she only wants to hurt him as he hurt her. And Jason is a fool for hurting her. He must have known how she was, and he should not have pushed such a woman to the brink of despair. He drove her mad, and she struck back harder than he could have imagined.

Her actions are, of course, inexcusable but they are not entirely her own fault. Her volatility erupted and she channelled it into the most ugliest and bloodiest of revenges. And it’s difficult to read about, but it’s also important to read about. Although Euripides, through his raw and visceral language exaggerates the tempest that becomes Medea’s mind, this is surprisingly real world because this does happen: it has happened. Despair can change a person.

The play also has powerful feminist undertones. Medea shouts to the skies that she is the equal to any man and when she has been wronged she will wrong back as a man would, recognising her own crime but committing it all the same.

n  And that’s her tragedy: she cannot look beyond her own pain and anger.n

Rachel Cusk was invited by London’s Almeida Theatre to write a new version of Euripides’s Medea. The new play is both thoroughly modern and bears the stamp of personality of this talented novelist and memoirist. That she fiercely loves her children, two boys, is apparent. She followed Euripides’s formula, creating a storyline which places the blame differently.

If you remember the story, Medea kills her sons when her unfaithful husband marries the young & well-tended daughter of Creon. Considering how difficult it would be for anyone to contemplate such an act, and considering Cusk was severely castigated by readers for her memoir about motherhood, A Life’s Work, Cusk manages to make her work, like Euripides's work, many things at the same time: strong, agonized, righteous, and tragic.

Commentaries on the original Greek play had different interpretations of Medea herself. One made her out to be a young lover who changed her view of her husband when she’d had children. The things that she liked about her husband when he was a young man annoy her when she’s older. When she learned he was unfaithful and was looking for something new, she poisoned his new wife and killed the husband and sons out of pique and revenge.

A more nuanced interpretation, suggests Medea pursued her ambitious middle-aged husband Jason hotly, helping him to secure the fleece of the Golden Ram and thus develop a reputation as one of the most daring heroes of Hellas. But Medea was an foreigner and when she returned to Jason's home with him, her combative and fiery alien nature grated on the conservative natives . She grew tiresome for Jason and he sought another, younger, wealthier alliance that would increase his standing. Then Medea sought revenge.

Cusk’s Medea has less backstory, though from the voices of the chorus (a group of mothers meeting while their kids playdate, and who cross paths picking up their children at the school gates), we learn that Medea is not liked. She’s smart, but no one really likes her writing, if they read it at all. She’s opinionated, which doesn’t work if one wants a marriage to run smoothly ("she asked for it"). She’s a “snooty cow” because she doesn’t always recognize the women in different settings, her mind on other things. Cusk slips in a Holocaust joke: “She gone very Belsen,” referring to how Medea has stopped eating. “It’s called the divorce diet.”

Meanwhile, Medea turns to the audience and makes her case:

“A bad thing has happened to me
You’re scared that if I name it, it might happen to you, too.
…Sleep, woman, sleep.
You won’t even feel it when he creeps to your side
and slits your throat.
What’s that you say? What about love?
Yes, you’re loving souls aren’t you?
You love the whole world,
You love your little hearts out.
It’s all right, you can hate me.
Go ahead, feel free.
It’s so much easier than hating yourselves.

Medea has other voices speaking with her, ones more intimate: the Tutor and the Nurse and the Cleaner. The Cleaner is clear-eyed and clear-spoken and shares what she learned from her mother: the best revenge is to be happy. Pretend if you don’t feel it. Women are good at pretending.

The eventual playing out of the story is unique yet retains the pain of the original. We hear Creon slyly telling Medea “You know, you look completely different when you smile” while she is in the midst of her life’s most curdling trial. “There’s the sourness again. The problem with you is you don’t know how to love…an unloving woman is a freak.”

The audience undoubtedly feels stress levels rising as the characters have interleaved speaking parts—talking over one another. If you’ve ever been witness to a disagreement, this is one…after another…after another. Any uncomfortableness we feel when Jason and Medea are speaking is relieved by Nurse, Tutor, and Cleaner pointing to the absurdities of male expectations. But the best joke goes to Aegeus, who will become Medea’s second husband.

Aegeus, speaking to a Medea distraught about the money Jason expects from the marriage says he understands Jason is about to get his needs “assuaged” by a wealthy heiress. This word comes as a surprise in the midst of conversation and surely would elicit a burst of laughter in any theatre. The word joke may only work in English, but its excessive formality and sound-similarity to “massage” is a perfect bomb.

Cusk’s originality in portraying the oldest stories of all—love and infidelity—continues to entrance. I am even more impressed now with her fictional trilogy Outline than I was before I read whatever I could of her work. This author is special. In a book talk at Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C., Cusk says a criterion to use when creating is that a work should be “useful.” Exactly. That’s why her work, her honesty, her humor, her willingness ‘to go there’ is so exciting. What she does keeps us alive.

С точки зрения современности, крайне сложно понять и оправдать убийство Медеей своих ни в чем не повинных детей, чтобы отомстить Ясону, ее неверному и расчетливому супругу. Также непонятны ее мотивы, что чтобы задержать преследовавшего ее отца, она убила брата, разрезав его тело на мелкие кусочки. На эту жертву она пошла ради Ясона. Их любовный союз был односторонним, она страстно его любила, и мы видим, на какие непостижимые жертвы она пошла. Он же женился на ней в обмен на ее помощь, и надо особо отметить, что никто бы не смог ему помочь, кроме нее, и его подвиги на колхидской земле только благодаря ей. Она – та, кто может многое, у нее есть власть и способность совершать большие дела. То есть им руководил трезвый расчет и ничего более. Бросает он Медею тоже по расчету, женившись на дочери Креонта, правителя Коринфа ради перспектив, даруемых этим браком. В этом его полнейшее ничтожество. Я ни в коем случае не оправдываю Медею, но ее гнев мне понятен. Страшное решение пришло к ней не сразу, гений Еврипида в том, что он показывает страдания мятущейся и мечущейся души. Нужно отметить, что Медея не только оскорблена такой дешевой изменой, но и в своих национальных чувствах. Ей, колхидянке, предпочли эллинку. Медея – безусловно, сильная личность, хоть и преступная в своем дето- и братоубийстве и умерщвлении соперницы и ее отца. Всегда удивительно, почему такие яркие личности выбирают ничтожнейших мужчин, ищущих лишь собственную материальную, имущественную выгоду. Образ Медеи – не вымысел Еврипида, а собирательный, обобщенный образ из народного творчества, мифов Древней Греции.

İhanete uğramış kadın, intikamını almak için neler yapabilir ?
Okuması oldukça keyifli bir tragedya.