Media Revenge - Blaise

I do not believe it is right for one single person to take revenge on another single person. An eye for an eye, just leaves the two people blind. I do, however, feel that when the discussion turns to more complicated and larger issues such as, war, the line begins to become fuzzy, and "revenge" may be justified in that instance.

I do not believe that Media is justified in seeking revenge on Jason, because she ends up making things much worse for herself due to her murdering of her own children. Instead of only losing her husband, she lost her kids as well.

Blog #2 Response: Harrison Level

I think that revenge on someone for something they did is sometimes justified. By no means is the saying "an eye for an eye" a good thing. A great response to that saying is "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" and I agree very much. An example of a situation where revenge is not needed would be if someone knocked over a drink on accident, or maybe even on purpose. I do not think that a valid response to that would be for someone to go out of their way to get revenge, it's simply just not needed. A situation where revenge is needed is when someone attacks family or someone close to you. If there is a problem between two people, it is just the lowest move to involve their family in any way, shape, or form. I do not advocate for anything illegal at all, but revenge should be done in a way that makes their day/week/year worse in any way possible. Never should anything physical, just mental or emotional.

Medea has good reasoning behind her hatred for Jason, but it goes beyond what would be considered "okay." When she plans to hurt Jason in every way she can and took it about one million levels too far. What Jason did was wrong, but killing everyone that Jason left her for is just completely unacceptable. By doing such an act she is not only hurting/killing those people, but also hurting herself and her future.

Medea and Revenge

It is not justifiable to take revenge on someone who has wronged you or someone close to you. However, I understand the sentiment. It is taught it many religions, including my own, that one should never follow the saying "an eye for an eye". One should forgive the wrongdoer and end the conflict there.

This usually does not happen due to the fact that we are human and forgiving can be a very difficult task. How hard forgiving is depends on age and circumstance. For example, a child in lower school will have a hard time forgiving a friend for stealing an animal cracker, but when that child is in high school or older, it no longer becomes hard to forgive friends for taking food. They may not want their food to be taken, but they will not begin a conflict over something so simple and readily available as food.

In the case of Medea, I believe that Jason had wronged her terribly. It makes sense she would feel the need to reciprocate those feelings towards him, however, the extent Medea goes to is simply too far. As I stated before, revenge should not be justifiable, and it should not be justifiable especially when that revenge involves the murder of not one, but three people.

Medea and Revenge

As humans, our natural instinct is to get angry and want revenge to whoever did us wrong. While it seems like a good idea in the moment, in the long run it does you no good. Fighting fire with fire will only make matters worse. Sometimes I don't even follow this advice, and the issues come back around and bite me in the butt. In my life, there has never been a time where revenge was the right thing todo, and good consequences came out of it.

For Medea's sake, Jason did do an awful thing to her that no woman should go through. While turning against her was ghastly, Medea's plan for revenge was in no way justifiable. To get back at Jason, her plan required the death of her children. As a consequence of Medea not being able to turn the other cheek, her innocent children's lives were on the line. While I say Medea was wrong to get revenge, she did have every right to be mad and disgusted towards Jason but it does not measure up to the ugly deeds Medea did.

In my opinion there is two ways to look at every scenario, the first being what you believe, the second being what you feel. For revenge my beliefs are to turn the cheek and accept what has been done, but as anyone who knows me knows my feelings are about as polar opposite of that as possible. Personally I could see myself depending on the scenario lean either way. For example lets say I told my best friend that I liked this really cute girl and then told him NOT to tell anyone else and rather then listen to me he goes and tells the entire school. In that situation I would turn my cheek, but remember that next time. On the other hand in an example where lets say I am a boss and have to fire someone from my company and they come and hurt my family or someone/thing to get back at me. Most likely I would react with revenge and probably anger. I think the biggest part of whether I turn my cheek or not is if someone gets hurt or if I am put into a life altering position. A great personal example of this is with my soccer team. I was playing goalie and was doing what I was suppose to be doing. Sadly I got scored on because a defender made a mistake. The defender, trying to escape the blame blamed me for his mistake. Instead of taking revenge and yelling and accusing him of making the mistake I just turned my cheek and continued to play. He later came and apologized to me. Now for the example of Medea I believe that she is justified in revenge, but should take the moral high road. The main reasons why I believe she is justified is because of Jason she is cursed by Aphrodite which makes her turn on her own family and country(not her fault). After killing her own family to allow Jason to escape and get the golden fleece, she then produces children. In those times and today's she has gone over what anyone could expect. In addition to that marriage to me is a  inseparable bond, which makes me take Medea's side rather then Jason's. To conclude, it depends on the situation whether I believe in revenge or not, and in the case of Medea I believe she has the right, but should take the moral high ground instead.

Medea and Revenge

I don't think that revenge can ever really be justified. However, I think that forgiveness, in the sense of waiting to forgive or maybe not being able to fully forgive someone, can be justified. I have found this to be true from my own life experiences. I have even found myself trying to get revenge on my own family members, by not acknowledging them and ignoring them to make them feel bad to get back at them for whatever they have done to me. This is when I found revenge is never the answer, because it did not make me feel better in the long run. 

I think that Medea is in the right to be completely upset at Jason, and to not forgive him, but I do not personally think anything is worth a human life/lives. The controversial part is that she has no choice with her love for Jason. That is where I think the situation can be justified, because she is technically mentally unstable. 

Medea and Revenge- Blog #2

The story of Medea is one of revenge and tragedy. This makes sense, as when revenge is involved, tragedy is the only outcome. This is because revenge is vitriolic in nature, and while the outcome may only be bad for the subject, the implications are still dire.

If I was to be deeply wronged, I would be understandably angry about this. Others may argue that it is simply justice, and that they are playing an eye for an eye. This is shortsighted (pun not intended), as revenge, by its definition, is not justice, and it is certainly ton an eye for an eye. The best example is in Medea itself. Jason leaves Medea for another woman and tries to exile her, where she has no place to go. Medea does not reply to this with equal force, she escalates, killing her and Jason's children. If this was justified, then why did the children have to die? Medea's revenge was not set in justice, nor was it a reply of equal injury. She wrongly killed her children in an effort to escalate the situation and hurt Jason. And to make matters worse, she set a precedent.

When I was five years old, one of my friends told me that playtime was over. I, wishing to continue playing with my legos, told him that I wasn't done playing. He said that the teacher said to stop playing, and so I promptly punched him in the face. While it was not premeditated, it was revenge. I felt that I was wronged, and so I escalated in an effort to hurt the other party. I shot the messenger, humorously enough, and it didn't end well for me, as I got in trouble. What's more, I set a precedent that I was violent and would resort to violence as a means of revenge. This echoed throughout elementary school, and I still deal with setting that precedent for myself to this day. Revenge is not just, it is not fair, and it is not smart. All revenge does is turn a bad situation worse, and set a precedent for reckless and dangerous behavior in the long run.

Blog #2: Medea and Revenge

Revenge is never healthy. When someone deeply hurts you it might seem as though the only option is to hurt them back. That emotion, however, is only in the heat of the moment and you might end up regretting your actions. An example of this is when my brother stole my favorite pencil in middle school. It was my lucky pencil that helped me ace every test so I was heartbroken when I realized it was missing. When I came home, I saw the pencil in my brothers book bag. I was furious, and instead of asking for it back, I decided to steal his English assignment for the next day. It made me feel justified in that moment, taking his assignment, but when I got home, that feeling vanished. My mother was so mad that I had stolen my brothers assignment, she grounded me. I got punished for my heated emotions. If I had just talked to my brother about the pencil, he would have given it back, but instead I decided I wanted revenge. I got punished for retaliating and not talking about the problem at hand.

I do not believe that Medea was justified in taking revenge on Jason. Medea hurt innocent people, her own children, for her own selfish reasons. While I do agree that what Jason did was wrong, it in no way should have resulted in the way that it did. Medea had a place to go after she was exiled, and could have taken her children with her. If she had decided to just leave, her future would be so much brighter and she could have been happy. Instead, she decided to let revenge ruin her by killing her own children, Jason's bride, and Creon. In the end, Medea is seen as murder of the innocent while Jason looks like the victim.

Blog #2: Madea and Revenge

I believe that it is not justified to take revenge on someone who has deeply wronged you. No matter how bad someone has upset you, it is never right to take revenge. Anger may be in place, but it is wiser and shows thats one is a stronger person if they take the high road and forgive. It takes extreme courage and strength to forgive someone when they have hurt you. I believe that forgiveness is the path that should always be walked, no matter the circumstance. Yes, it is important to stand up for ourself, but lashing out and seeking for revenge can only make matters worse. Being the bigger person and showing maturity is not always easy, but is definitely worth the outcome. There is no certain way that an act of revenge can be justified, forgiving and moving on is the only way to bring peace. In middle school rumors were made up about me, and mean things were said behind my back, but I chose to take the high road. Instead of starting bad rumors about the other girls, I said nothing and did my best to forgive them. Forgiveness is not always easy, and it does not always come quickly. Forgiving big wrongdoings takes time and perseverance. The outcome of forgiveness is alwaysworth the wait and better than the outcome of revenge.

 I do not believe that Madea was justified in taking revenge on Jason. As I said above, I do not think there is any justification for revenge. Madea was deeply hurt by Jason and filled with anger, but her acts of revenge caused a far worse outcome than the path that forgiveness would have taken her on. With Madea's revenge, her innocent children were killed in order to get back at Jason. There is absolutely no justification for murdering ones own children, no matter the point of view on the situation. Even with a broken heart, Madea should not have sought out revenge on Jason.

Revenge Blog #2

Though revenge always seems like the knee-jerk reaction when someone wrongs you, it is never the right thing to do. Turning the other cheek to the person who wronged you is always the best way to handle that kind of situation. Revenge often leads to more damage being done than what is necessary, and many times in my life I have tried to get back at people for talking badly about me by adding fuel to the fire, and it has always come back to bite me when my actions were unnecessary in the first place.
While what Jason did to Madea is disgusting and violating, she went to extreme measures to get him back. She did have very reason to be mad at him and detest him, but killing her children and his entire family was not a good reaction to Jason's actions. Revenge is never justifiable, no matter what someone does to you, and no matter how hard it is to follow.

Blog Resonse #2 Colin Harmon

In life when someone wrongs you, revenge will never get you anywhere. Revenge always prolongs the dispute which ends up causing more issues. An example of this in my life was in elementary school when one of my friends jokingly pushed me and I fell into a puddle, this  made very angry at the time and I desperately wanted to push him back, but I realized that if I did this the teachers would have gotten involved and both of us would have gotten in trouble, so I held back. If I would have retaliated, it is possible that we would have brokenn our friendship for such a minor incident.

I do not believe Medea was justified in her revenge on Jason. Medea ended up killing her own children, who  never wronged their mother, just to get back at Jason for cheating on her. Medea unjustly took the innocent lives of her own children just to stay back at a Man who cheated on her.

Blog #2 Response: Eric Blonigen

Revenge is a dirty act. Fueled by boiling emotions and irrational thoughts, revenge is done without thinking about consequences. Though technically revenge can refer to the harmless retribution to a harmless insult, a prank war for example, it is usually used under the connotation that the acts referred to are serious.

I don't believe that you can justify revenge. It is merely an irrational act that prolongs spite. The entire legal system bases itself in the limiting of revenge, with "an eye for an eye" being the excepted maximum, and punishments in practice usually being less. Revenge only breeds hatred, and promotes violence and tragedy down the line as feuds develop. I do not have any personal examples, thankfully, but the fact that the Hatfield-McCoy feud began over a suspected connection between one of the Hatfields in the killing of one of the McCoys and the disputed ownership of a pig is testament to the bloody price revenge takes.

Medea has good reason to hate Jason; He used her to get what he wanted and then left for greener pastures. But her hatred goes beyond a healthy level. Ignoring everything else important, ignoring the many enemies that will be made, ignoring even the fact that technically she was the one responsible for the deaths of her brother and father, she plots to hurt Jason in every way possible. When the best option is to take the high road, she stoops just as low as Jason, maybe even lower. Murdering their kids just to spite Jason, killing his new love and father-in-law, the later of whom is the ruler of the city, just because they were the ones he left her for. She chose a path that could only ever lead to the destruction of herself and everything she ever loved, and treats it as inevitable. Remember, Jason is a chauvinist, philandering scumbag, but Medea is a mass murderer. Which is easier to forgive?

Blog #2: Medea and Revenge

Be sure to answer all parts of the following prompt and to do so using proper grammar and sentence structure. Do not respond in a comment; make a new post.

Do you believe it is ever justified to take revenge on someone who has deeply wronged you? If so, why? If not, why not? Provide an example from your life that supports either claim.

If your answer is that it would depend on what was done to wrong you, include an example of a scenario in which you would take revenge and one in which you would not.

Also, do you believe Medea is justified in seeking revenge on Jason? If so, why? If not, why not?