... at the end of her pitiful rope weeping over her broken heart; a heart that was destroyed by her adulteress husband, Jason. Unannounced to his wife Medea, Jason decided to remarry into royalty. He wed the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth; which is also the Greek city where the play is set ... dialogue and its closeness to natural human speech patterns paved the way for dramatic realism, while the emotional vacillations in many of his works created our understanding of melodrama."(1) He was also known as a pioneer of the tragi-comedy. His First being the play Alcestis and then later writi...

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... of having strong emotions, but her mind is anything but weak. "Oh, oh! What misery, what wretchedness!/ What shall I do? If only I were dead!"(Medea lines 96-97) she had said to her Nurse. This a perfect line to support her hidden agenda, as she would later say in solitude about Jason- "It ... horror left For it is that very mind that compiles the infamous plot of vengeance recognized by all who study Ancient Greek literature. The reason for Medea's emotional landslide is simple. Jason has left her for the daughter of Creon, the King of Corinth, in an attempt to gain a better foot ... co...

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