Jason's Betrayal In Medea

Betrayal In the story “Medea” by Sophocles the main character experiences a terrible betrayal, as her husband leaves her to marry another, and because of this terrible betrayal the main character Medea then goes on to do many horrible things, all because of one act of dishonorable behavior. Some of the horrible things Medea goes on to do, is manipulate everyone into believing she wishes them no ill, send a poisoned dress to her husband’s new fiance, which then kills her. Then Medea goes on to kill her children because of the fact that her husband loves them. Medea does all of these things because of her “love and hate” for Jason. In the end Medea achieves her goal of destroying her Jason’s life. Medea believes that Jason’s betrayal justifies her revenge, although almost all of the characters in the story believe that Jason has done nothing wrong at all, and is completely justified in leaving her because he is a man. In the time period in which this play was written during ancient greek and Athenian culture it was quite common for a male figure to leave his wife, but on the flip side a wife could not leave the husband. However, there are some characters that believe medea is being wronged such as the Nurse, who hates Jason for ever going to find the fleece and ruining Medea’s life …show more content…
Another one of Medea’s manipulations was how she told her husband Jason that she had come to terms with everything and told him that he was right, and then went on to plot against Jason which would be considered a betrayal of her