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Medea and Divinity

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In the tragedy "Medea." by Euripides, the relationship between Medea and the power is portrayed obviously and doubtlessly. However, the divinity in Medea doesn't clearly appear until later in the play. Also the transition from power to divinity is vague, it gradually expands throughout the action from the plot from an mournful wife then rises up to nearly a goddess in the end. According to Aristotle's Poetics, a "whole story" should have the beginning that doesn't follow any specific event, but an exposition that initiates one. The play begins with the Nurse narrating a whole chain of events that eventually leads to our Medea's unfortunate. After leaving her country - where her status is regarded as high as a princess, Medea helps Jason win the throne, gives birth to two most adorable kids, then travels with him to faraway Corinth land. And here, Jason abandoned her for another princess to marry into the royal and succeed as a king. Applies that theory to the play, Medea's grieving has slowly and silently developed since the moment she left her motherland to pursuit her love until the ultimately painful moment when her lover - her only source of joy, of hope, of life – abandoned her; she now has nothing to hold on and ultimately, falls into pit hole of despair. We know she's in the state of despair according to this verse: "...she won't touch food; surrendering to pain, she melts away her days in tears, ever since she learned of this injustice. She won't raise her face; her eyes are glued to the ground" ( 29 - 33). At this stage, her divinity has not yet appeared; she was still a vulnerable pitiful wife who cries for the love of her life. The only source of power she has is those skills of a sorceress, but not any intellectual. However, as a god's granddaughter, she certainly perceive herself apart from other common women. After a while, she decidedly chooses to come outside and makes a public speech to accuse the fault of this so

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