... 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 throats of her two children, she achieves her vindictive goal: "Oh, woman, you have destroyed me." (669) Why does Medea sink to such immoral, inextricable levels of ... left 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 on centre st...

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