1. Medea Jeopardy Literary Analysis Misc. Characters Locations
Gods/and Persuasion
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2. Who is the first character to appear on stage?
Characters 100
Who is the first character to appear on stage?
The Nurse
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3. Characters 200 Pelias the King
Who does Medea help kill for Jason to receive the Golden Fleece?
Pelias the King
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4. Characters 300 Creon Jason? Creon? Aegeus?
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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5. Stand on the front lines of battle
Characters 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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6. Characters 500
What is the name of Creon’s Daughter and Jason’s second wife?
Glauce
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7. What word(s) does Jason consistently use to describe Medea’s homeland?
Setting 100
What word(s) does Jason consistently use to describe Medea’s homeland?
Barbaric or Savage
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8. Where does the action of the Play take place?
Location 200
Where does the action of the Play take place?
Corinth
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9. Setting 300
Medea left Colchis for Corinth, and she is told she will end up…
On the Streets
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10. Setting 400 He wanted power
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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11. Setting 500 Athens, Amnesty (safety) Where is King Aegeus from?
What does he promise Medea?
Athens, Amnesty (safety)
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12. Which god is the Lord of gods and punishes oath breakers?
The gods & Persuasion 100
Which god is the Lord of gods and punishes oath breakers?
Zeus
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13. The Gods & Persuasion 200 Apollo
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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14. The Gods & Persuasion 300 Forgiver her and accept gifts
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
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15. The Gods and persuasion 400
Rides off in a chariot with this interesting animal pulling Medea
A dragon
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16. The gods and Persuasion 500
What god takes Medea and her children’s bodies away?
Apollo
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17. Literary Analysis 100
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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18. Literary Analysis 200
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?
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19. What way does she defy traditional gender roles when he leaves?
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 analysis 300
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 him
Without 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 stopped
My 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.
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20. Medea as Woman: loyal wife and nurturing mother.
Explain how 2 themes apply to the quote. (1 min)
Literary analysis 400
I would reply to your words at length, 1610 if father Zeus did not already know what I did for you and what you did to me. You weren't going to shame my marriage bed and 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 lioness or 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 Athenian: defining herself publicly and using the language and rhetoric of the law.
Medea as Hero: honor obsessed, intent upon action and reputation, and fearing laughter by peers.
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21. Literary Terms 500
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?
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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22. 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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23. Misc. 200
How does Glauce die?
Fire and poison
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24. MISC 300 He will die old and alone, without fame, stripped of honor.
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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25. Cause/Effect 400 Medea falls in love with Jason because of:
Cupid’s arrow
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26. Misc. 500
Name 2 events the Nurse speaks of in the prologue from Jason and the Argonauts.
I wish the Argo had never spread its wings
And 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 oars
To fledge the arms of the Argonauts. Oh why
Did Pelias send them for the Golden Fleece?
If they had never come, my mistress Medea
Would not have sailed back to Iolcos with them,
Dazed with passion for their leader, Jason.
Then she would not have made King Pelias’ daughters
Kill their own father. And she’d not have come
to settle here in Corinth, but she has.
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