... play itself. Here, the lights would be dim, grays abound, and the tone would be set for murder. Euripides is a master of the dark side. His femme fatale, Medea, consumed by fury and lust for revenge, employs her witchcraft to strip Jason of all those things which provide him his zenith of happiness. By murdering his bride (that unforeseeingly perpetuates the death of her father, the king) and slitting the ... withering in the shadows, the life force of the city exhausted. Many quarrel with Medea and dismiss its message as mere melodrama, a flagrant reason to put the extremes of humanity o...

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