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she could have protected her children by taking them with her, this was the best way to save them and hurt Jason even more. Her actions were gruesome but her motives were clear and

Medea is a tragedy of a woman betrayed by her husband Jason and bent on revenge to the extreme of killing her own sons. Medea as the the main character we see her perspective on the story as to where she is the one being betrayed and view her actions before and following that. Medea feels betrayed by Jason, for him wanting a new woman and she lets the jealousy consume her. Medea bent on revenge so furiously that she will go to no extent to pursue what she feels just. First, she was angry, then

dialogue between Medea and Jason. Medea’s actions and thoughts at the beginning of the play exemplify Medea’s active role in events of her life. The nurse provides a synopsis,

After the storm hits, Esch continues to remain in line with Medea and Jason's story. Similar to Medea's betrayal of her brother, Esch unintentionally betrayed Skeetah by dropping the puppies from the bucket he worked so hard to keep them safe in into the raging flood waters. Torn, Skeetah chooses to rescue Esch from the deadly water rather than any of his dogs. Although Esch obviously did not mean for her father to push her into the water, the puppies and China, Skeetah's pride and joys, were washed

Agamemnon by Aeschylus, Antigone by Sophocles, and Medea by Euripides are all well-written plays highlighting the tragic tales of three women scorned. Exposing all their flaws along the way, Clytemnestra, Antigone, and Medea let their untamed emotions build their paths that shines some light on the true nature of their relationships with the people around them and society in general in the hopes that their heightened emotions will help fix all of their troubles. Some fail to realize that there are

Medea, foreign bride to Jason of the Argonauts fame, is troubled by the ethnocentric marriage customs of the Greeks in which marriage is seen as an institution for heirs. As a foreigner in Corinth, Medea is already faced with judgment from native Greeks. Medea’s history of crimes such as, the death of her father by chopping him into pieces reveals her capabilities and more importantly her abandonment by her husband Jason reveals the culture of male supremacy. Because of this, Medea attempts to gain

emotions as if they were seeing it in real life. Medea seems in this play as a person who felt in love with the wrong person and who brought her misery. According to this review, Jason in this play is portrayed as selfish man and his betrayal to Medea goes well for his own vengeance that lastly destroys him. By placing Jason as person who is very selfish and only care for his own wellbeing its set a turning point on why Medea took

Medea plans to kill her children instead of Jason. The main reason being that, by killing the children, it will cause Jason eternal pain. Medea’s position of citizenship also affects her emotional state and actions. Medea is an immigrant. She speaks on how she tried to blend in to this “strange Greek society” (7) and failed. I feel it is because of this failed effort that Medea finally understands that she is a foreigner—and also unwelcomed—and has no home to return to. It is for this reason I believe

The text “The Infanticide in Euripides’ Medea” by P.E. Easterling summarizes the events in the play focusing on how the betrayed love for Jason turned Medea’s expertise and intellectual power into a destructive power, thus killing her own children. The article’s main focus is on how Euripides has both justified and the reprimanded murder of children by Medea. Beginning the article by describing that only a madwomen would commit such a crime, the writer moves on to somewhat justify Medea’s actions

Euripides infanticidal re-imagining of the Medea myth continues to arouse controversy more than a millennia since it was penned in the fifth century BC. A key reason it does so is because of the way in which Euripides challenges and offends what are still, even in the 21st century, traditional notions of motherhood. As such, Euripides infuses his work with a great deal of ambiguity about Medea’s tragic downfall. Medea finds herself with extraordinary amounts of power coming about from not tolerating