Jason And Medea Comparison

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. - Maimonides The chorus lines, “O the terror- the suffering for all the world to see the worst terror that ever met my eyes” (Euripides Medea #). Parallels with Euripides tragedies, Medea and Iphigenia At Aulis and Sophocles tragedy, Oedipus the King. This line parallels to Medea because the chorus fears Medea when she goes to kill her children and before she killed her brother, Absyrtus and father she suffered in the end having no family left. In addition, Jason suffers when Medea kills his fiancée, Glauce. In the tragedy, Iphigenia At Aulis Agamemnon and Menelaus fight over the sacrifice of Iphigenia for their fear of the not getting any wind. Clytemnestra suffers when …show more content…
For instance Menelaus after opening Agamemnon’s leter wanted him to kill his daughter Iphigenia. In the agon of the tragedy, Menelaus tells Agamemnon,”That is just the time when his friends ought to be able to count on him, when his prosperity enables him to do more for them than ever”(Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis 322). Menelaus wants Agamemnon to follow the prophecy and kill Iphigenia because the greeks need this. If Agamemnon is able to help out in any way then he should because the greeks count on him. Agamemnon is the leader of the Greek host, he should put his people first. Furthermore agamemnon did not tell Iphigenia at first that he needs to sacrifice her. He feared she would run and he needed her to come to him. Clytemnestra found this information and then told Achilles,”So he made the marriage a pretext. And then the marriage brought me here(Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis 334). Agamemnon did not tell Clytemnestra about the sacrifice because he feared that he would tell Iphigenia and have her run away. There would be no wind without his sacrifice to Artemis and it would be a disaster for the Greeks. Moreover Agamemnon finally agreed to sacrificing his daughter to Artemis. When Menelaus gave Agamemnon his acceptance of his brother not killin Iphigenia, Agamemnon tells him, …show more content…
For instance Oedipus’s biological parents, King Laius and Queen Jocasta tried to send him to die at mount cithaeron due to the fact that they feared the prophecy. When Oedipus is on the verge of finding out the truth he questions the Shepherd, “My wife- she gave it to you?...Why what for”(Sophocles Oedipus the King 1008)? The Shepherd replies by saying, “To kill it... she was afraid...frightening prophecies”(Sophocles Oedipus the King 1008). Jocasta feared that Oedipus’s prophecy would come true so she had to get rid of him. It would be worse for him to live. The suffering came from Jocasta and Laius strong fear of the prophecies. Moreover Oedipus couldn’t bear in order to see what he did so he blinds himself. The messenger tells the leader of the chorus Oedipus had said, “You, you’ll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused”(Sophocles Oedipus the King 1011)! Oedipus feared finding the answer of Laius’s murder when he realized he could be in relation to Laius. He wanted to find the truth to save Thebes until the truth became too powerful for him to hear. Oedipus could not bear to see the world he lived in, what he had done. At last when Oedipus realizes what danger he is to his “parents” King Polybus and Queen Merope he leaves

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