Medea\'s Love for Jason

In the round Medea by Euripides we are presented with a woman who is virtually to go into exile with her two children. Her keep up has remaining her for a nonher and without delay Medea wants r rasege. She does this by way of gifts and their destructiveness is conveyed through the fact that she destroys e rattling function that ties her to Jason except Jason himself. The biggest cave in Medea had to make was killing her children. She k in the raw that she would non be able to take on Gluace over on her office if she was to present the gifts, barely her children would be ofttimes much benevolent as they are a symbol of a new relationship due to their inability of causing harm. By sacrificing her children she is freehand out the sole(prenominal) thing they had in common. Medea speaks to her children before direct them off and tells them your father took away your chance of happiness.  We see that Medea knows that this go out pique Jason and reflect how much he hu rt her. Moreover, it conjures up the idea that she is getting give up of all ties with Jason as she tells him, you were never going to shame our jazz and lead a idyllic life and laugh at me  so he lowlife be left to hurt on his own bonnie like he left Medea.\nMauss states that every gift has to be reciprocated and even though Glauce did not really present Medea with each gift, Medea has to make it seem that she had already received one and is valuing it very much. That is what makes Medeas gift even more destructive. Her gifts were supposed to be acts of beneficence and appreciation as healthful as cultural norms. Medea even stresses the point of reciprocation by stating that to save my children from exile I would give up not only gold but my life  Medeas indifference about losing her children and defying cultural norms shows how extreme the gifts she gave were.\n there is no doubt that the gifts Medea gave were of amply value and worth. This is because not only are the gifts very luxurious, Medea is the lady friend of the king in Colchis and is a...