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A Love Triangle
EN Composition 1
12/28/12

A Love Triangle
Medea and Jason are both manipulative. When Medea learnt that she being force to exile she pleads to Creon soft side to allow her an extra day to regroup herself.Asking him to consider her children and having to provide for them since their father cannot do that anymore.MeanwhileMedea ask Jason to come and leave their children with him and his new family only so that she could use the children to send to carry a gift for the princess which consist of a poison woven robe and tiara. When she acceptsthe gifts she will die and so is anyone who touches her. After doing all of this, Medea is trying to put together her plan to kill Jason’s new family. In this society, we learn it is a sin to kill another human being. No matter what the other did to you, you should never resolve to violence. It is against our society laws and it against our morals value regarding what is right and wrong regardless of the law.
Jason is manipulative. He manipulates Medea into doing his biding in the quest that he offers his everlasting love. And as such Medea killed the dragon that was guarding the Golden Fleece, left her father and herhome, and killed Pelias. By doing this he never taught of the consequences of his actions as what might the future bring. He manipulates Medea feelings for him for her to do his bidding. And as a woman myself I find that repulsive and wrong on so many level. As we all know women are driven on emotions, one loose nail and the whole house come down scrambling.
Jason is selfish. “Attendant: And who 'amongst men is not? Art learning only now, that every single man cares for himself more than for his neighbor, some from honest motives, others for mere gain's sake? Seeing that to indulge his passion their father has ceased to love these children” (940). As a father, Jason has the right to provide and protect his children and teach them what is right or wrong. But in this case all Jason could think about was all the

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