... ruling powers within the society, from her prison-like doorway is indication of the great power she, herself, controls, despite her societies attempts to suppress her. "His bride: she writhes and dies, when I decide. Who calls me pliant, powerless?" Here Medea makes clear her power over the princess, the bride of Jason. She demonstrates the extent of her power in that she has total control ... for the audience would have been the horrendously vile way in which the king and princess are killed. To even think of hurting the royal house in Grecian society would have been stomach turning to...

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