Detailed para explaining our understanding of Euripides’s presentation of Jason’s character to an audience
Euripides portrays Jason in several different ways to the audience. Our initial introduction to Jason is through the eyes of the Nurse and Medea where the audience feels disgusted by his lack of care and betrayal of Medea and the children. However, as the play progresses Euripides uses Jason’s seemingly kind demeanor to push Jason’s narrative that he is not in the wrong. Arguments and evidence are given to why he is noble and a man of wisdom – choosing to bolster his family’s connections. The main role that Jason plays is to show men the tragedies that follow if they fall victim to lust and greed, forgetting their sacred vows.