Medea

medea Through the play Medea, Euripides shows us the importance of keeping a ring given. At the beginning of the story, we see the play?s two opposing views of promise keeping represented by the Nurse and the Tutor. As she stands outside of Medea?s house and laments the right smart Jason has slighted Medea by taking another married woman, the Nurse speaks of the ?eternal promise? Jason and Medea made to each other on their wedding mean solar day (17-21). The Nurse wishes Jason were dead for the way he has abandoned his wife and children, so strongly does she feel vows should not be confounded (83).

When the Tutor enters the scene, he expresses a much more cynical view regarding Jason?s decision to leave his wife. He asks the nurse, ? kick in you only just discovered / That everyone loves himself more than his neighbor? / more or less have good reason, others get something out of it. / So Jason neglects his children for the rude(a) bride? (85-88). The Tutor feels that Jason?s leaving Medea is only a protrude of life, as ?Old ...If you want to get a practiced essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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