Medea Jeopardy

Characters Locations Gods/and Persuasion

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CHAR ACTERS 100

Who is the first character to appear on stage?

The Nurse

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CHAR ACTERS 200

Who does Medea help kill for Jason to receive the Golden Fleece?

Pelias the King

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CHAR ACTERS300

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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CHAR ACTERS 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

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CHAR ACTERS500

What is the name of Creon’s Daughter and Jason’s second wife?

Glauce

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SET TIN G100

What word(s) does Jason consistently use to describe Medea’s homeland? Barbaric or Savage

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L OCATIO N200

Where does the action of the Play take place?

Corinth

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SET TIN G300

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Medea left Colchis for Corinth, and she is told she will end up…

On the Streets

SET TIN G 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 TIN G500

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Where is King Aegeus from?What does he promise Medea?

Athens, Amnesty (safety)

THE GODS & PER SUASIO N 100

Which god is the Lord of gods and punishes oath breakers? Zeus

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THE GODS & PER SUASIO N 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

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THE GODS & PER SUASIO N300

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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 GO DS AND PER SUASION400

Rides off in a chariot with this interesting animal pulling Medea A dragon

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THE GODS AN D PER SUASIO N 500

What god takes Medea and her children’s bodies away?

Apollo

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LITERARY AN ALY SIS100

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 AN ALY SIS200

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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 AN ALY SIS400

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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.

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MISC.200

How does Glauce die?

Fire and poison

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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.

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CAU SE/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.