The Broken Love of Medea and Jason

Within the victimize Medea written by Euripides, the cleaning woman/ catch Medea has her emotions transformed from discouragement to control. She changed from constantly being overwhelmed and blue due to her husband, Jasons marrying for great power; to a overbearing and manipulating woman, who had rage towards everyone, yet put up love for her children. However, that love for her children was something she was involuntary to sacrifice to destroy Jason. Medea took the human activity murderer in her erstwhile(prenominal) because she tricked the daughters of Pelias into killing their father when Medea told them she could mother Pelias young again. Medea killed her brother Absyrtus to economic aid Jason escape from Colchis with the Golden Fleece. She couldnt retire the title veritable(a) in her unexampled metropolis of Corinth.\nMedea was an abandoned woman with deuce children. She was mortified and depressed by her husbands dishonor. She showered herself in constant tears and pity. At one point in the story on course of study 65, the childrens tutor redden asks is she non done with crying yet? and the nurse responds with shes barely started (Euripides, 65). Her depression was her flunk; it made her fierce, resembling a cop for her anger and the harm she could potentially cause someone. This broke her down, make her want to kill not only herself, but her children as well (Euripides, 100-103).\nMedea did not occupy ab break herself; she was awaiting her own death. As she whined and cried she constantly said I wish I could die, and asked when the nightmare would be over (Euripides, 105). Her workers show that they feared her. They feared for her children and what she was capable of doing being so enraged and depressed. Jason also wondered what she competency do to his new over-embellished family and the children he left behind. This gained her new enemies who were not only out to harm her, but for her children as well. I reacted to this great ly because I cannot imagine a mother feeling over joyed of ...