Analysis Of Medea By Euripides

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Euripides’ style of work mostly focus on personal issues and dilemmas. He portrayed the flaws of humans and heros in his plays during ancient Greek, thus he was not a very popular writer during his time. As shown in one of his famous work, Medea, centralizes on the characters Medea and Jason and their broken marriage and erratic behaviors. Euripides use his main characters to express his opinion of Greek society during his time. In Medea, he uses Medea and Jason to express his concern of the disfunction of marriage, divorce, and vengeance. He reveals the flaws of Medea and Jason as he develops through the play. Medea and Jason made decisions that hurt each other, their marriage, and other victims. They justified their wrongdoings not because they were saving themselves, because they …show more content…

The dramatic ending serves a purpose as he wants to point out the flaws for Greek marriage traditions. He revealed the sexism in Greek marriages with Jason and Medea. Jason was very domineering and also portrayed as the antagonist, thus making his wrongdoings very unforgiving. His justification of leaving Medea was unreasonable and only made his situation worse. Jason, once the hero, is satirized by Euripides. His actions are not seen as heroic, even if he thinks about the well being of his sons. Medea, on the other hand, can be sympathized at first by seen from suffering from the lost of her love to an unfair reason. Her erratic behavior was well justified, she had the right to grieve over everything she had lost. However, her act of revenge went out of hand. Her act of revenge was worse than Jason’s act of betrayal. Her revenge add a dramatic effect which was intended to send a message. Euripides brought up a taboo aspect of marriage and divorce in Medea to show the flaws in Greek belief. Marriages were not fair, as shown in Medea. The character Medea, was used to send message that there needs to be justice for

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