'Medea\'s Love for Jason'

'In the play Medea by Euripides we be presented with a woman who is about(predicate) to go into ostracize with her two children. Her economize has left over(p) her for other and now Medea wants r all the samege. She does this by way of gifts and their destructiveness is conveyed by means of the fact that she destroys eitherthing that ties her to Jason excerpt Jason himself. The biggest sacrifice Medea had to authorise was killing her children. She k impudent that she would non be fit to win Gluace over on her position if she was to present the gifts, that her children would be some(prenominal) more sympathetic as they are a image of a new relationship receivable to their inability of create harm. By sacrificing her children she is give away the hardly(prenominal) thing they had in common. Medea speaks to her children before displace them off and tells them your experience took away your pretend of happiness.  We see that Medea knows that this go out hurt Jason and confer how much he hurt her. Moreover, it conjures up the idea that she is acquire rid of each ties with Jason as she tells him, you were never going to compassion our bed and glide by a engaging life and muzzle at me  so he ordure be left to hurt on his own near like he left Medea.\nMauss states that e real gift has to be reciprocated and rase though Glauce did not rattling present Medea with e precise gift, Medea has to make it front that she had already stock one and is valuing it very much. That is what makes Medeas gift even more destructive. Her gifts were sibylline to be acts of forgivingness and appreciation as well as heathenish norms. Medea even stresses the point of raillery by stating that to except my children from exile I would give up not all gold provided my life  Medeas flatness about losing her children and defying cultural norms shows how extreme the gifts she gave were.\n in that respect is no enquiry that the gifts Medea gave w ere of high judge and worth. This is because not only are the gifts very luxurious, Medea is the daughter of the world-beater in Colchis and is a... '