Patriarchy In Medea

Her act in killing her own sons, showed Jason that she was no longer going to try to persuade him in equality, and she was the only one with power in their relationship. Also she enforces her superiority of a Greek who is very confident, killing the two male children was act of killing the wall that entrapped her, all male of Corinth was fall if the do not see women equal, just as Jason.
Medea gives birth to two boys, she raised them, fed them with her own breast; the exchange of the mother's milk to the child symbolizes connection between the mother and child. Medea gave the children life from her body and held them in her body for 9 months, those children were her's, but that was not true. In Corinth patriarchal system those children that Medea gave …show more content…
Greek views women are the bearer of children not the actually parent of them. Medea's own children become a prison for her because she has to take care of them but she is not their mother; she their nanny. Throughout the whole story Jason is referred as the parent not Medea, even though she care for them. At the beginning of the novel the Nurse and the Tutor are talking about Medea's predicament and how Jason abandoned his own children, during the conversation they both refer to Jason as the parent, not Medea, "'And will Jason put up with it that his children should suffer so, though he's no friend to their mother'"(3). Even after all he did the Corinthian people ignore Medea and what she has done for the children. If the children are not her's and she still has to provided for them, they end up become nuances, and she has to get rid of them because they using her like a parasite would use it host. The action of her killing her