Theme Notes.docx

JUSTICE           

Fairness Equity Impartiality Lack of bias What is right Law Integrity Ethics Morality Honesty Principle

The breaking of trust and oaths is an injustice (particularly in the eyes of the gods)

INJUSTICES BY JASON  Marrying Glauce without discussing it with his wife  Almost abandoning his family to increase his social standing when they did nothing wrong to him  Regarding women as property  Breaking oaths made to gods

INJUSTICES BY MEDEA  Murders (brother, Pelias, Glauce, Creon, sons)  Gets away with murder

INJUSTICES-OTHER CHARACTERS  Creon- banishment  Gods (Jason’s perspective)- letting Medea get away with everything)

QUOTES  “Jason has betrayed my lady and his own children for a princess’ bed”- Nurse  “She calls upon Themis, who listens to prayer and upon Zeus, the appointed steward of mortal oaths?”- Nurse  “So ungovernable now that she has felt the sting of injustice”- Nurse  “May you be struck down by...Justice who punishes murder”- Jason  “The criminal with a gift for speaking deserves the worst of punishments”- Medea  “There is no justice in the eyes of men”- Medea  “I am being wronged by Jason though I have done him no wrong”- Medea  “Devise some ways of making my husband pay for this suffering of mine”- Medea

 “Oh great Themis and lady Artemis do you see what I suffer though I bound my husband by weighty oaths?”- Medea  “You can not evade punishment”- Messenger  “Recompense is coming for the female sex. No more shall we women endure the burden of ill-repute”- Chorus  “All this I have done for you and yet you have betrayed me”- Medea  “You have desecrated the king’s home… have you no fear of the consequences?”-Messenger  “You have betrayed your wife and are behaving unjustly”- Chorus  “It is just that you should take revenge upon your husband”- Chorus  “Poor lady… driven without rights into exile.”- Chorus  “You have come to know justice and the use of law”- Jason  “Wicked husband, traitor to her bed. She calls upon the gods to witness how unjustly she is treated”- Chorus