My emotions and thoughts on Medea is everything but ordinary. When listening to the over view of the play I was expecting the all familiar love tragedy. The usual murder, dishonestly, disloyalty, and the most important, revenge. In Medea revenge is the most important vital feature. Medea killing her children separates this drama from the rest. I feel zero remorse, compassion, or sympathy for her. In a normal reaction, empathy migrates towards Medea. It shows within the characteristics of the chorus. The other characters all at one point feel emotion and remorse towards her.
The play makes Jason out to be this dreadful person that destroyed an abandoned Medea. Certain passages in the play note otherwise in my opinion. Jason left her