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Agamemnon evokes more pity than Jason does, do you agree?
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Agamemnon evokes more pity than Jason does, do you agree? When considering if we pity someone, the factors that have to be considered are, their personality-because if we like them we are more likely to pity them, their actions and whether we feel that they are right or wrong, their reversal of fortune-because the extent of their tragedy will evoke more sympathy, their relations and contrasts with others and if they deserved what happened to them. With these factors in mind I feel that it is Jason not Agamemnon who evokes our sympathies more. Overall I feel that Jason's character as far more rounded than Agamemnon's, we see more of Jason in the play. When we first meet Jason he is an instantly dislikable character, he is too rational and dismisses Medea's reasonable complaints against him. He makes the most disgusting comments, 'Think yourself lucky to be let off with banishment'...
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