Medea Sacrifice Essay

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While some people sacrifice things based on value, our values can often be told through our sacrifices, such is the example of Medea’s character in Euripides’s Medea. Throughout the play Medea’s sacrifices prove her values, such as those of loyalty and fierceness, and conversely her values being wronged, though Jason’s betrayal, prove what her ultimate sacrifice will be. At the beginning, the nurse can be observed delivering a monologue based on the events of past. Revealing to the audience that Medea has placed a great deal of importance on the love she holds for Jason which leads her to sacrifice almost everything about herself. From the moment Aphrodite made Medea fall in love with Jason, we can see Medea sacrificing parts of herself, beginning with her brother. She kills her brother whom was in pursuit of Jason and betrays her hometown of Colchis to guarantee his safety. This accentuated the value she places on loyalty, as at this point she has decided that Jason is the sole benefactor in her new alliance to the Argonauts. She hold her chosen alliances over those she was born into expressing Euripides outlook on traditional familiar ties. Furthermore this alliance to Jason proves to be more self-sacrifice …show more content…
She chooses to tear her own heart out in hopes to tear out Jason’s for his marriage to Creon of Corinth’s daughter, Creusa. To do this she slaughters her own children in a way that parallels the barbaric view Jason came to hold of Medea which caused him to marry Creusa. Ironically enough, Creon, who had casted Medea out for threatening his daughter becomes the mirror of Medea sacrificing her children for revenge as he sacrifices himself by jumping on the burning body of Creusa to attempt to stop the flames which eventually end up killing both father and daughter, furthering the motif of children to the
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