... what they want from the other characters, or to hide something they have done. The men they deceive believe their lies because they are both very convincing. Medea lies to her husband Jason to get him to believe that she is not planning revenge against him for what he has done to her. She pleads, Jason ... "parallels" in these plays aside form the heroines and their husbands. (McGrath) Creon "parallels" Krogstad. Both men want something from the main characters. Creon wants Medea to be exiled from Corinth, and Krogstad wants Nora to convince her husband to let her keep his job at the ba...

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• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... needed to kill her children to carry out her plan, since she accomplished two different goals through their deaths. The murder of Medea's children is certainly caused in part by her barbarian origins. The main reason that Jason decides to divorce Medea to marry the princess is that he will have a higher status and more material wealth being married to the king's daughter ... status is a burden to herself as well. Once separated from Jason, she becomes an outsider with no place to go, because the barbarians were not thought too highly of in Greek society. Had Medea not been a barbarian, ...

• Word Count: 1974
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School