Episode 4

Question 1

Medea tries to convince JAson by telling him he was doing the right thing

Answer 1

Medea: starts with “Jason”, why am I being so obstinate, your councils were good, your choice in marrying and producing royal offspring was advantageous to us (he should perhaps be wary of this false argument)

I now applaud you (appealing to pride), you were only showing good sense

Question 2

tries to convince him by suggesting she was just being stupid

Answer 2

uses rhetorical question to show she thinks she’s being stupid, the gods are providing well for me, I am I not aware that I need friends badly.

Applies to his misogynist/ male pride side: I won’t call us evil us women, don’t be like us in our weaknesses and attack folly with folly.

Question 3

Medea uses her children to convince

Answer 3

Calls “O children, children” embrace your father (convincing him, very sinister)
my children will you live a long life and stretch your arms at your father’s grave,how quick I am to weep, how full of fear I have brought my quarrels with your father to an end and my eyes to tears
Enormous pathos, direct address to children but in 3rd person, very moving, we know they won’t live to an old age.

Question 4

JAson remains arrogant and proud especially in respect to his male pride

Answer 4

It is fair enough that one of your sex, a woman, should fly into a passion with a husband who traffic in contraband love (sexually slighted woman, sexist)
You are now being a sensible woman (subject to the man?)

Question 5

What does JAson hope for his childrn

Answer 5

I pray to see you my children thriving as you reach the fullness of youth, triumphant over my enemies (her? Ironic)

Question 6

What does Medea demand of JAson

Answer 6

she will go into exile but asks Jason to beg Creon that the children remain and receive their education at Jason’s hands, ask your wife to beg her father

Question 7

Why does JAson think he can convince Glauce

Answer 7

“if she is like the rest of her sex, I think I shall persuade her” (male vanity, shows us that Medea has done well to convince him through appealing to his pride, his skills of a charmer have, however, failed)

Question 8

hands and children

Answer 8

I will send the children to her bearing gifts. Take these bridal gifts in your hands children

they say gifts persuade even the gods.

Question 9

HAnd theme

Answer 9

take these bridal gifs in your hands (to the children)
supplicate her that you may not be exiled
it is vital that she takes these gifts into her hands