Why Did Medea Kill Creon

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Euripides’ Medea is a play centered around Medea who has been abandoned by her one true love and husband, Jason. Jason leaves Medea to marry the princess of Corinth and finally achieve his dreams of reigning as a King. Creon, King of Corinth, orders Medea and her children to be exiled from the land out of fear of Medea’s evil ways. After pleading to Creon, Creon gives Medea one day to gather her children and find a new home away from Corinth. It is during her last days, Medea plans to murder Jason, the princess, and Creon. Even though Jason claims he is marrying the princess for the best interests of both Medea and their children, Medea still cannot forgive him for his actions of infidelity. For her own satisfaction, Medea changes her plans and decides not to murder Jason, but to have him live to mourn the loss of his own children and his bride. Yes, Medea plans her own children’s deaths. Medea’s mourning for her children will not outweigh the satisfaction she will feel as she watches Jason’s suffering. In my essay, I will focus on why Medea kills her own two sons in revenge against Jason. Medea decides to kill her …show more content…

In the beginning of the play, the Nurse says, “For I’ve seen her already blazing her eyes at them as though she meant some mischief and I am sure that she’ll not stop raging until she has struck at someone” (4). Medea begins to get mad very easily at the children, and she resorts to physically hitting them. Medea feels that she can abuse her children because they remind her of Jason and her broken heart; however, it is not the children’s fault that her husband left her. In the play, readers can see that the Nurse knows not to even bring the children around their mother when she is in her “angry mood” (4). Because the Nurse knows not to have the children around Medea when she is in a bad mood, readers can imply that she often takes out her anger on her

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