Argumentative Essay On Medea

Medea is a fascinating play that focuses on the betrayal of Medea by her husband Jason. One key fact that Jason forgets to acknowledge is that Medea is a demigoddess and she will not stand letting him leave without a fight. There is an endless list of things Medea has given up to be with Jason, also all the things she has done to get him to where he was to that day. They had a respectable life, two children, and a loving relationship, but he was going to throw all of that away for a new girl. This play is driven by Medea’s desire for revenge and the conflicting values Jason and Medea shared. Medea and Jason are not from Corinth, a city in Greece where they now live, and they have diverging values from those of the Corinthians. Most people during this time felt that women should be submissive and give into the desires of men. They also felt that women …show more content…
Medea’s mother was part goddess, which in turn made Medea partially divine. She used her power, poison, to fulfill her will of enacting revenge against her husband. Medea shows us when she states, “She and all who touch the girl will die in agony; such poison will I lay upon the gifts I send.”(26) Medea uses her divine powers to kill the king and princess, which was all part of her plan to get back at Jason. Then to hurt him even more, she makes sure he will never see his kids again. She kills both of her kids with her bare hands to prove a point. This may have been difficult for a regular mortal woman, but since Medea is a demigoddess she sees the world differently and has a different sense of morality. Throughout the play there are also many instances where Medea yells out to the gods. At one point she says, “Great Themis, lady Artemis, behold the things I suffer, though I made him promise.”(6) They vowed to the gods when they got married and it seems that the gods are punishing Jason for breaking his vow to