Medea Justice And Injustice Essay

Stephenie Meyer, author of The Twilight Series, once said “the right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else.” The play Medea, written by Euripides, is about a heartbroken woman who decides the best way to make her ex-husband feel the pain he caused inside her, is to kill his newlywed wife, his new father-in-law, and the children they both raised. In the play Medea, the author uses Medea’s twisted sense of justice to illustrate how one’s successful path to justice could create an even greater injustice for other.
Medea is overcome with depression and pain after her husband left her to marry the king's daughter, who was given to him in marriage. She cries aloud about how she “can’t take this pain, this misery” (18). Her ex-husband has created a gaping hole of pain and sorrow in her life. This pain transforms into a thirst of revenge and justice for the wrongs that have been committed against her, especially when “I’ve [Medea] done nothing to provoke them” (18). Medea finally reaches her last straw when she is exiled from the land of which she lives in, by the king, whose daughter …show more content…
Along with her ex-husbands wife and father-in-law, her children stood no chance against Medea’s hateful wrath. Her ex-husband confronts her after she “committed this atrocious crime” (55) to hopefully bury and hold his children one last time. He is denied his request, and she reiterates her entire purpose in her journey of death and pain by gleefully saying this “should cause you pain” (56). In this time of which Medea lives, there is no greater injustice against human law than killing the very children you raised. Yet in Medea’s eyes, she truthfully sees that her actions are justified and that this is deserved, as if she herself were karma, coming back to bite her