Medea Of Insanity Analysis

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Howes defines the word insanity from his point of view to using an online definition. He also explains perseveration and perseverance, also saying that insanity is not doing the same motion over and over again. Ryan Howes is of course a therapists, who wrote and was featured on a lot of websites and blogs, as well as having a masters degree in theology and psychology and a PhD. While he does not go into very much or wide detail of insanity, he does leave enough information that helps prove that Medea is not insane, but rather was hopeless and useless that she had to act in her best option.

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