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However, Medea is not portrayed as a "normal" female character; instead Medea is a powerful, supernatural, uncompromising, intelligent woman. This characterisation plays upon the male fears about female power and irrationality.
When Medea is exiled before the deaths of Creon, the King of Corinth, Glauce, daughter of Creon, two other points arouse. This exile was to show valid points of female injustices. One of these injustices was that all women are exiled as a punishment for being divorced. They are to leave home, and live amongst strangers. The other point was that because Medea was a foreigner she will always be looked down upon as she was thought of as barbaric. This shows how low the position of women was in those days.
Medea's intelligence is one of a high standard. With her intelligence she also is clever and cunning which are emphasized throughout Medea. When Creon tells Medea that she is to be exiled and gives his reason for it being as he is fearful of what an intelligent woman like her self could do. As she then explains to him that she is not as smart as he believes and then tells him that it is better to be born stupid, for men despise the clever. .
"Because I am clever, they are jealous; while rest dislike me. After all, I am not so clever as all that.".
As this was a cunning move it won Creon over and Medea was allowed one more day before exile. Medea also appealed to the fact that Creon himself was a parent and begged pity.
Jason, Medea's ex-husband could have been seen as a villain, or the weak, unsympathetic character. Jason was great at manipulation he used Medea in the past and he now manipulates the royal family of Corinth to secure his own ends. .
Jason sets himself up as the superior, logical male. He is thought to the representation of order and civilisation. .
During the play Jason repeatedly accuses Medea of being entirely motivated by sexual passion. .
" you women gave reached such a state where.
