Role Of Injustice In Medea

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“I am full of pity, full of deep pity for you(Euripides304)”, Characters all have selfish injustice ways, each has motives for their own selfish goals. The author or playwright Euripides’ play Medea was a greek tragedy about a world plagued with the hunger for justice and revenge. Characters in Medea are justified in their own way to act the way they do, but Euripides makes the point that every character in the tragedy is an antihero.
Medea has multiple occasions which she can choose to think about others and not get the justice she thinks she needs on Jason to continue life. Medea craves the idea of destroying Jason for leaving her, she is ready to make the sacrifices needed even the deaths of her own children would not stop her. Although
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