Medea has a passion for her lover Jason, which she performs unspeakable acts for. On page 529, “for her part, she complied with Jason in all things...oppose her husband.” Medea was thinking with her mind for their love. As Jason betrays Medea by falling out of love with her, she starts to think with her heart instead of her head. Her mind is set to revenge and rage while …show more content…
Towards the end Jason was ruled by his passion in his tirade towards Medea after he finds out his children were murdered. Anger makes us do irrational things. Throughout the play, as evidence in the text, Medea constantly puts her feelings above everything else. She fights with herself constantly as she plots her revenge, but in the end passion wins out as she carries out her plan to kill Jason's bride and her two children. Passion is above all reason in this play.
In Oedipus the King, the play, parts of reason and passion show throughout different stages. Oedipus is faced with decisions that formulate his future. To relate to reason and passion; the words can be viewed as vision versus seeing. Oedipus does not always see the truth or the reason, he is blinded by his passion or view of seeing the things he wants to see.
An example of the statement about over not accepting or reasoning with the things you do not want too is between Oedipus and his past. He has a vivid scar of a memory of being left in the mountains as a baby. He was left in the mountains with the shepherd in charge of killing him. The shepherd obviously never did. His name comes from the injury, but Oedipus only lives with a vivid memory of this tragic event and does not see it