Medea's Persuasion Literary Analysis

Authors of every time period want their ideas to be heard and so they carefully choose words or phrases to be ordered in specific ways that will allow their ideas to be better perceived. Whether for persuasion, information or just simply entertainment, writers pick apart literary devices and use them to their advantage. For example, the building of the rage through of specific aspects of drama, word usage and repetition of ideas in a prayer given my Medea, we are persuaded by Euripides to suspend our morals and side with Medea in her battle with Jason.

In the opening of the play, the Nurse and Tutor discuss the happenings of Medea’s current situation after Jason’s departure and question what will come of everyone. When we suddenly hear Medea crying out from inside of the abuse she has suffered …show more content…
Again, Medea refers to Jason’s wrongdoing by saying “He was the one with the nerve to commit this injustice” (i,532). Yet another piece of dirt burying Jason in his freshly dug grave, his nerve. We still aren’t sure why Jason left Medea, besides the story of how he left to make a better life for Medea and their children, which is instantly taken as a lie by Medea and us being on ‘Medea’s side’ are more prone to see this as just another excuse instead of what could be a true story. By this time we are already completely caught up in Euripides web of untrue heroes and have zero second thoughts on what Medea is suggesting. We may even want to see Jason dead as much as Medea! The repetition of Jason’s faults along with the thought of him having the nerve to do this just adds to the tower we are building against him in our minds. Granted, we are predisposed to this because of the time period in which we are reading the story of Medea in. A time in which anyone who cheats in a relationship is deeply hated and persecuted by those who find out, showing our ability to defend even the most unlikely