Is Jason Justified In Killing The Princess Medea

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The act of Medea murdering the princess is her demolishing the ideology of what a powerful women is. In killing the princess Medea relinquishes the position of greek interpretation and women and insteads provides a feminist idealism, a women that does not abide man-made regulation, they can rely on their own strength. Along with undermining ideology of a Greek women, Medea is freeing herself from the entrapment that the princess portrays, the princess is one of the main reason that Jason left her. Medea is caged by emotion of hatred and vengeance and a way of freeing herself from this is assassinating that princess, in this Medea is able to get revenge on Jason and break out of the emotional hold he has over her, Overall Medea is able to relieve

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