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Medea Jeopardy
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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 now arrives?
Jason?
Creon?
Aegeus?
Creon
Jeopardy
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. Which of these did she not mention?
Helping him yoke enchanged bulls?
Killing the serpent which guarded the Golden Fleece?
Chopping up her brother and leaving his bits at sea ?
Killing Talos with her poison?
Killing Talos with poison
Jeopardy
SET TING100
What word(s) does Jason
consistently use to describe Medea’s
homeland? Barbaric or Savage
Jeopardy
SET TING300
Jeopardy
Medea gets angrier with Jason - where (she tells him) will she and her children end up?
On the Streets
SET TING 400
Why does Jason say he married Glauke, the
king's daughter?
He fell in love
He wanted more sons
He wanted power
He no longer found Medea attractive He wanted power
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
Jeopardy
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 not say? What type of persuasion does she predominately use.
A) I still love you B) You are doing your best for us all C) I still have the children to look after D) I was a fool not to trust you
A - Pathos
THE GODS AND PERSUASION400
“What better treasure trove could I have found,
than marriage with the daughter of a king, -- I an
exile.”
Logos - logic
Jeopardy
THE GODS AND PERSUASION 500
“To me, a person who does wrong, and then defends it, so plausibly, deserves the heaviest punishment.”
Ethos – mortality
Jeopardy
LITERARY ANALYSIS100
What literary device is used in the
following quote by the chorus? What do
they mean by this statement?
“O women, marriage, bed of pain, How
much evil you have brought to mankind.”
Metaphor
Jeopardy
LITERARY ANALYSIS200
Jeopardy
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?
What type of
persuasion is he
using?
LITERARY ANALYSIS300
Jeopardy
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.
Jeopardy
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
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
MISC.500
Name 5 events the Nurse speaks of in the
prologue.
Jeopardy
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.