The play evolves from a heartbroken, melancholic Medea, betrayed wife who languished in bed and incapable of even raising her eyelids, apparently resigned to her fate, to an effervescent and sanguine woman with a terrible desire for revenge that will not stop at infanticide for the utter destruction of her once once-loved husband. We women are the worst treated things alive” “Of all creatures that can feel and think, When she feels persecuted by man or men she asserts her own power, assuming she has just as much right to act in this way as any man does.

Medea does not passively sit back and accept the injustice of Jason’s actions she is definitely not silent in the face of injustice.

She saved him from certain death, she left the safety of her kingdom, she even killed her own brother. Medea had given up everything for the man she was led by the Gods to love above even herself. The theme of Medea is the extravagant hatred, for the once bewildering love of the heroine for Jason was transformed when he repudiates her to marry another. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”Euripides writes a masterpiece of love, betrayal and revenge.

“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. This book is one of James Mustich’s 1,000 Books to Read. Overall, this is a tragedy worthy of a read. Medea is certainly not a meek, submissive woman who can be discarded carelessly. They never accept ownership for their own actions but constantly bemoan how things would have been better if the other person had done something differently. This couple deserves each other both of them are extremely selfish. However, the play begins as Jason has cast off Medea and his sons in favor of marrying the daughter of the ruler of Corinth. They wed, and Medea has two children, sons. The two burn bridges, but they have each other.

Jason and Medea have an epic love story-Medea betrays her family and helps Jason capture The Golden Fleece. Before diving in, I read a bit of what this play is or else I would have been entirely lost. That exactly describes my feelings about this play. At the end of the movie, someone explained it to me, and I thought, “Wow! That’s so interesting! But they really should have handed out a pamphlet before the beginning of the movie to explain it.” People were just getting up and walking out. I had no idea what was going on throughout the entire film. Way back in the day, I was at a movie theatre watching a movie, and it was a really weird movie.

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