Explain the reference made to Golden fleece and colchos' strand?
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Strand means beach. In MOV, Colchos strand refers to the beach or shore of Colchis, an ancient country in Asia, South of the Caucasus and bordering on the Black Sea which is believed to be the land of the Golden Fleece in Greek mythology.
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The golden fleece is the golden coat of a Boeotian ram. It was rumored to be the most magnificent item that even mighty kings envied. After the parents of Jason, the rightful prince of Thessaly, died, his power hungry uncle assumed the throne. Years later when Jason returned to claim the throne he made a deal with his uncle that if he was able to find the golden fleece, he may have the throne.
Image: The story of the golden fleece can be represented in many ways. Whether its the literal golden coat of a Boeotian ram as shown below or simply a valuable and unobtainable item such as the holy grail, the fountain of youth or lost treasure.
Allusions to the Golden Fleece:
Shakespeare, in his play The Merchant of Venice, explicitly alludes to the golden fleece when Bassanio describes a beautiful girl in the line, “For the four winds blow in from every coast renowned suitors, and her sunny locks hang on her temples like a golden fleece; which makes her seat of Belmont Colchos' strand, And many Jasons come in quest of her.” Shakespeare relies on the allusion of the golden fleece to convey the message about the value she holds and exactly how unattainable she is to the audience.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, in the short story Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, implicitly alludes to the golden fleece through another, equally sought after item: the fountain of youth. In the line, "Yes, friends, ye are old again," said Dr. Heidegger, "and lo! the Water of Youth is all lavished on the ground. Well--I bemoan it not; for if the fountain gushed at my very doorstep, I would not stoop to bathe my lips in it--no, though its delirium were for years instead of moments. Such is the lesson ye have taught me!" Hawthorne revolves his story around the fountain of youth that is, like the golden fleece, extremely valuable. He does this in order to convey to his reader how selfish people can be when that have the ability to obtain an item that society deems unobtainable.
Robert Louis Stevenson, in the book Treasure Island, implicitly alludes to the golden fleece through an equally uncommon item: lost treasure. When Stevenson states, “In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten [...], and I could not doubt that he hoped to seize upon the treasure, find and board the Hispaniola under cover of night, cut every honest throat about that island, and sail away as he had at first intended, laden with crimes and riches.” He uses the golden fleece myth to show his reader exactly how ruthless and cruel a person be when they are consumed by greed.
John Steinbeck, in the novel The Grapes of Wrath, implicitly alludes to the golden fleece through the flyers that promise jobs to the unemployed when he states, “Now, how many of you all got them handbills? There you are, same yellow handbill. 800 Pickers Wanted. All right, the man wants 800 men, so he prints 5,000 handbills and maybe 20,000 people see 'em. And maybe two or three thousand people start West on account of that handbill. Two or three thousand people that are crazy with worry headin' out for 800 jobs. Now does that make sense?” Steinbeck creates this allusion to help the reader comprehend how humans behave when they come across an item that is in great demand.