Euripides's Medea, translated by Michael Townsend, is compiled of numerous themes, and social commentaries that build the "dramatic action" necessary for this Greek tragedy, making it a well-known and extendedly read piece of literature (Corrigan 553). Medea, along with her melodramatics, stirs up numerous events that victimize the "flat and two-dimensional characters" in the play that are "pawns" in her very own "chess game ... giving it the substance necessary for it to be a real Greek Tragedy. The elements of love and revenge are what bring about Jason's downfall and the death of his child...

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... even argues with herself on this matter, saying, "Poor heart, let them go, have pity upon the children No! By Hell's avenging furies it shall not be."" Medea vacillates internally between what reason and civilization dictates, that is, to keep her children from harm, and what her instinctive ... her children from external harm "from the people of Corinth "by killing them herself, and declaring, "this shall never be, that I should suffer my children to be the prey of my enemies' insolence."" (Medea, Euripides, lines 1060-1062) The marriage of these two ambivalent natures thus cannot ... ,...

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