Medea Betrayal Theme

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Women giving men their all is something they do often and best. But a man giving a woman his all is something that rarely happens. A man can bring heart ache and pain to a woman’s life when he betrays her. Enough pain and heart ache to cause a woman to feel and do things for revenge. In the classical play Medea Euripides constructs betrayal, a mother’s love, and females rage to create the character Medea. Betrayal is a powerful thing that that can happen between two people in a relationship. In this classical play betrayal is shown as a theme throughout the play. It showed how Jason was a man of disrespect and dishonor. As read in the text the Nurse stated, “What should be most loved has been contaminated, stricken since Jason has betrayed …show more content…
It can bring a woman to the point of no return. When Jason betrayed Medea she felt hurt and pain, but mostly she felt RAGE! So much rage in fact it was just enough to get Creon to change his mind in letting her stay one more day in Cornith. But one more day is all she needed because she had already constructed a plan of revenge. Medea stated in the passage to Chorus that “he could have thrown me out, destroyed my plans; instead he’s granted me a single day to turn three enemies to three dead bodies: the father, and the bride, and my own husband.” (537,380-383). Which clearly states that she had already plotted against Creon, Glauce, and Jason for payback. But her rage was so strong that killing Jason’s new wife would have never been enough revenge for her. What she did know is it that the best revenge would be to kill his heir. So he could no others born with to have his name. Meaning that he would have no kids or grandkids to take over for what he has built up. So Medea decided to kill their children, the one thing that meant the world to them. And this is why she made the statement “to make you feel pain.” (564,1450). Because she wanted him to feel the same pain she felt. A pain of loneliness and heart ache for the rest of his life. So she knew that Jason would be devastated for the death of his children, but also because she refused to let him see their dead bodies or even bury them. Medea chose
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