Topic > Medea - 1660

Susan Smith killed her two children in 1994. Kathleen Folbigg killed her only child in 1998. Caro Socorro killed her three children in 1999. And in 431 BC the fictional character, Medea, murdered the his two children. When we hear about these extreme atrocities we feel revulsion. What mother in her right mind could kill her own children? But that's the point, isn't it, no mother in her right mind would kill her little ones. No, each of these women had underlying psychological issues that led them to commit these unnatural and morally wrong acts. Susan was rejected by her lover, Kathleen's father had brutally killed her mother, Caro was the victim of a failed marital relationship, while in Euripides' comedy Medea was not only rejected and the victim of a failed marital relationship but also had her heart torn pride. from underneath her. Revenge is one of the most primitive and brutal human impulses. When an individual feels threatened by another individual, he indulges in revenge fantasies. But it is when these fantasies become reality that society suffers. “Medea” reveals how revenge can take over the mind, sending a person beyond madness. Euripides created an intense revenge tragedy within his work "Medea". This allows audiences to study the passion humans have for revenge as a psychological construct and moral issue. I mean, Medea took revenge all the way by ignoring her maternal instinct just to "get even with Jason for his wrongs" (line 260, p. 25). The myth of Medea and Jason was well known within the Athenian society in which it was written. Although there were several versions circulating. The very addition of Euripides to the text added intensity to Medea's revenge. In older versions of the myth, children were murdered in the middle of a sheet of paper, one by one, until there was nothing left? Where the Chorus observes but doesn't interfere, even though Euripides makes sure to remind us that they could? We are left with the final picture of the barbarian sorceress, exultant and destroyed at the same time, who achieved the final victory over her enemies only at the cost of the lives of her children. Medea founds the Euripidean universe, in which heroism is rare and suffering falls on the innocent and the guilty with equal brutality. Medea's anger, uncontrolled and unchanging, carries us from the beginning of the play to its horrific final moments. The work also engages us, as his hatred and anger, though extreme, remain disturbing and instantly recognisable, the grim satisfaction he takes in his revenge, however brutal and self-destructive, bears at least some resemblance to our own secret fantasies and dissatisfied..