Medea Journal Entry Analysis

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English 1A Medea Journal Entry Euripidies’ Medea is a tragic Greek play in which the main character Medea takes horrible revenge on her husband for leaving her to marry a princess. I really liked how modern a play Medea must have been for its time. Most of Greek literature and culture is centered on masculinity but in Medea we see a woman who although crazy stands up for herself in a male dominated world. As the play progresses her blind rage transforms Medea from a helpless victim, to crazed child killer. Medea is introduced as a miserable ranting wreck. She so loudly voices her anger over her unfaithful, hero, husband Jason’s new marriage that she is promptly exiled because of it. This imposed exile does not sit well with Medea so before she leaves she wants to…show more content…
Initially I didn’t think that she could kill her children but as I drew closer to the end I knew they were done for. I am led to this conclusion by the fact that Medea was versed in the black arts and had killed her brother years before, her blind rage towards Jason, and the grotesque manner in which she killed the princess and her father. After she does finally kill everyone her husband cares for she flies off into the sunset on a chariot and lives her life unhappily ever after. After reading the play I still didn’t fully understand Medea’s motivator for killing her children. Before she put her plot into motion she had skillfully manipulated Aegeus into granting her asylum. Why couldn’t she just kill the king and princess throw her kids in the flying chariot and take them to Aegeus’ place to lie low. The best I could think of was she was a determinist or that she maybe wanted them to die. When she decides to kill them she says “I will kill the children—my children. No one on this earth can save them.”[pg36, 812] This thinking suggested she either believed the children where fated to die or was lying and wanted

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