"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." In the Greek tragedy Medea by Euripides, a protagonist by the name of Medea was betrayed by the love of her life, Jason. Jason the antagonist, promised Medea marriage if she stole her fathers golden fleece. Medea fell for his trickery; she killed her brother and betrayed her father. After many years and two kids, he still never kept his oath to marriage. Jason then left her for a princess. Medea was heartbroken and cried for days. Until, she got an idea for revenge on Jason. "For you, to torture you with pain."
Medea is a good play because of how she planned for revenge on Jason. It was shocking how she was so okay with killing her family and had no remorse for it. When you read it, you couldn't expect that she would poison her kids for revenge, because everything she did was so unexpected and crazy you couldn't believe she would really go through killing her kids and setting Jason's new wife on fire. She even said on page 130 to Jason "These children live no more, and that will pierce right you through." She really thought revenge was worth losing her children, and being alone the rest of her life, is worth it.
I connect to Medea because I've been betrayed by people, and being betrayed by someone you love and care about really hurts. Medea challenges my view on the world by showing me you can't always trust people. Medea trusted Jason and she got hurt. Medea is a lot like the play Alcestis by Euripides, because in both plays people died. In Alcestis, Alcestis killed herself for love of her family. In Medea though, Media killed her family in hate of the love of her life. "The suffering I have endured, endured, calling for bitter lament aloud! Accursed children of a hated mother, I wish you were done for along with your father. To hell with the family, all of the house." This quote shows that Media was so angry and hurt that she was willing to kill her own children so that Jason can suffer. Medea didn't kill Jason; she let him suffer life.
Review Written by: Meghan Mowrey
Author: Euripides
