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Characters Locations Gods/and Persuasion
Literary Analysis Misc.
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CHARACTERS 100
Who is the first character to appear on stage?
The Nurse
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CHARACTERS 200
Who does Medea help kill for Jason to
receive the Golden Fleece? Pelias the King
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CHARACTERS300
After the first conversation with the chorus, Medea is
powerless, because she's foreign, she's got no family, and
- above all- Because she’s a woman. She appeals to the
other women not to give her away, if she finds a way to
get revenge on Jason. Who arrives to throw her out?
Jason?
Creon?
Aegeus?
Creon
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CHARACTERS 400
Jason tells Medea it's her own fault for abusing her hosts -
but offers financial support. Medea calls him a filthy
coward, and lists the risks she took to help him get where
he is. She later says instead of bear children, she would
rather…
Stand on the front lines of battle
Jeopardy
CHARACTERS500
What is the name of Creon’s Daughter and Jason’s second wife?
Glauce
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SET TING100
What word(s) does Jason
consistently use to describe Medea’s
homeland? Barbaric or Savage
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LOCATION200
Where does the action of the Play take place?
Corinth
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SET TING300
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Medea left Colchis for Corinth, and she is told she will end up…
On the Streets
SET TING 400
Why does Jason say he married Glauce, the
king's daughter?
He fell in love
He wanted more sons
He wanted power
He no longer found Medea attractive He wanted power
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SET TING500
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Where is King Aegeus from?What does he promise Medea?
Athens, Amnesty (safety)
THE GODS & PERSUASION 100
Which god is the Lord of
gods and punishes oath
breakers? Zeus
Jeopardy
THE GODS & PERSUASION 200
Despite her bad experience with the oath Jason
swore - and broke - Medea insists that Aegeus
swear an oath to keep her safe in Athens, and
protect her from her enemies in Corinth and
Iolcos. Who does she make him swear by? Apollo
Jeopardy
THE GODS & PERSUASION300
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Jason returns. Medea plays the submissive wife quite blatantly. For the third time in the play, she kneels to a man in order to get what she wants. What does she convince him to do?
Forgiver her and accept gifts
THE GODS AND PERSUASION400
Rides off in a chariot with this interesting animal
pulling Medea A dragon
Jeopardy
THE GODS AND PERSUASION 500
What god takes Medea and her children’s bodies away?
Apollo
Jeopardy
LITERARY ANALYSIS100
What literary device is used in the
following quote by the chorus? What do
they mean by this statement?
“O bed of pain, How much evil you have
brought to mankind.”
Metaphor
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LITERARY ANALYSIS200
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I have to say I credit Aphrodite…Indeed it would be indelicate and ungrateful to list many ways in which Desire [Aphrodite] Drove you, helpless on to save my life…
On the other hand, you got more than you gave. The first thing is, you live in Greece, instead of somewhere barbarous…then all the Greeks have heard of you, the wise one…
Behind me, what better treasure-trove could I have found than marriage with the daughter of a king—I, an exile…I acted solely to ensure that we live well and never go without, because I know people will shun a man who’s lost his wealth.
What are some
stereotypical male
traits that Jason
expresses in the
following lines?
LITERARY ANALYSIS300
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Everything’s set in every way against me. But don’t imagine this is all – not yet. There are still dangers for this bride and groom:And more than a little trouble for her father. Do you think that I’d have crawled and fawned on himWithout some hope of gain, some scheme in mind?I’d not have spoken to him, not have touched him.But he has reached the depths of folly now:He could have banished me at once, and stoppedMy plans—instead, he’s given me this day:I’ve time to turn three enemies to corpses—The father and the daughter, and my husband.
In what ways does Medea portray the
feminine gender role
when speaking
with Creon?
What way does she defy
traditional gender roles
when he leaves?
LITERARY ANALYSIS400
Jeopardy
I would reply to your words at length, 1610if father Zeus did not already knowwhat I did for you and what you did to me.You weren't going to shame my marriage bedand have a pleasant life ridiculing me.Nor was that royal bride or Creon,who gave her to you, going to banish me,throw me from here with impunity.So if you want, call me a lionessor Scylla, who lives on Tuscan shores.For I've made contact with your heart at last
Medea as Woman: loyal wife and
nurturing mother.Medea as Other: barbarian sorceress and intruder from an uncivilized land.
Revenger, Power, Greed
Medea as Hero: honor obsessed, intent upon action and reputation, and fearing laughter by peers.
Medea as Athenian: defining herself publicly and using the language and rhetoric of the law.
Explain how 2
themes apply to the
quote. (1 min)
LITERARY TERMS500
Find 2 literary devices and explain how whether Medea here seems to follow a more masculine or feminine gender role during this scene.
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Go in—all will be well—boys, go in.Keep them as isolated as you can.Don’t let them near their mother; she’s distraught.Already, I’ve seen her eyeing them, like a beast about to charge…
Clearly now the storm is rising, the cloud of pain will soon burst into greater fury. What will her proud untamable spirit do under the bite of suffering?
MISC.100
The boys come back from their run with
the old tutor: what gossip has he heard?
Creon is planning to ban Medea.
Jeopardy
MISC.200
How does Glauce die?
Fire and poison
Jeopardy
MISC300
Medea ignore's Jason's outbursts - she knows
she's got through to him at last. Zeus knows how
she helped Jason, and how he repaid her. She
refuses to give him her sons' bodies - she will
bury them herself in the Temple of Hera. What
does she say will become of Jason?
He will die old and alone, without fame, stripped of honor.
Jeopardy
CAUSE/EFFECT400
Medea falls in love with Jason because
of:
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Cupid’s arrow
MISC.500Name 2 events the Nurse speaks of in the
prologue from Jason and the Argonauts.
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I wish the Argo had never spread its wingsAnd flown to Colchis through the Clashing Rocks.I wish the pine tree on the slopes of Pelion Had not been felled; not split to feathery oarsTo fledge the arms of the Argonauts. Oh why Did Pelias send them for the Golden Fleece?If they had never come, my mistress MedeaWould not have sailed back to Iolcos with them, Dazed with passion for their leader, Jason. Then she would not have made King Pelias’ daughtersKill their own father. And she’d not have come to settle here in Corinth, but she has.
