In Euripides play, Medea, Medea struggles internally of whether she should kill her children or not before finally coming to a decision. After the death of the king and the princess, Medea is faced with the choice between killing her own children or sparing them. She continually tells herself that she can save them and run to Athens for safety. However, that would mean leaving them in Corinth in the hands of the enemies. In her mind, if the kids were to die, she wanted it done by her own hands. So she steels herself as she murders her beloved sons. She also kills her sons to wound Jason and endure as much agony as she is in. Again, her only motivation to the evil that she performs is to repay Jason in kind for the grief that he put Medea in.
