Medea Rage And Jealousy Analysis

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Rage and jealousy can consume a person, like in the case of Medea. Jason toyed with Medea emotion’s causing her to get mad with anger and jealousy. An example of the anger fully taking control of her is when she doesn’t want the enemies or Jason to care for her children she so out of extreme jealousy of that happening she leads to the extremes, and she says, “I will kill my sons. No one shall take my children away from me. When I have made Jason’s house a whole shamble, I will leave Corinth a murderess, flying from my darling children’s blood.” (Medea, 41). Medea doesn’t just stop at killing her children, but also kills Jason’s wife; the princess, so Jason could experience the crippling loneliness Medea did, this is announced on page fifty-two

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