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a-chan
a-chan
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College - Junior

The image of the heart recurs throughout "Medea," as do mention of disease and poison. To what purpose has the playwright used them?

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Posted by a-chan on Sunday December 9, 2007 at 2:37 AM and tagged with disease, heart, imagery, medea, poison.

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  1. malibrarian Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

    eNotes Editor

    Medea is a very passionate story - one filled with passionate love as well as passionate hate, and it is a thin line that separates the two.  Medea's love for Jason and their children turns to such overreaching anger and hatred for him when he leaves her to marry Creon's daughter that she loses her mind and kills her own children, simply to destroy Jason. Euripides shows us the disease, the poison, that can spring out of what was originally love (the heart), and how really love and hate are closer than we like to believe.

    Check the links below for more information about this play and the playwright's themes for it.  Good luck!

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/medea/medea
    http://www.enotes.com/medea/themes

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    Posted by malibrarian on Monday December 24, 2007 at 12:59 PM