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Love Revealed In Homer's 'Medea'

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To some Medea is about love, but it goes deeper than love. Love is the cause of all the wrongs. Medea is mostly about the power Gods have. Not only is it about the power they have, it's about how they use it and what they do with it. It’s also about not letting this power end. Conflicts, breakup, revenge, murders and some disappoint happened all because of power. Also judgments, gender inequality, and characters being portrayed something their not. This is the cause of evilness amongst one another.
Medea a witch, in which was also Jason's wife. Because of Eros, the god of love, she was madly deeply in love. This love was a dangerous love. She helped him do many things. She helped him reach his goal, and take his father's throne from his uncle. …show more content…

Just like Zeus was greater than cronus. Defeated his father, and was the greatest of them all. Aegus wanted the same as well. He wanted a son but wasn't able to heir. A god was blocking him from giving inheritance to his son. That was the reason for most gods having kids, multiple kids. But it goes deeper than this.
Being the fact that Medea helped Jason with King pelias. Medea suffered the consequences. She was punished for Jason's actions. She was abandoned from Corinth. All the things she did for Jason, portrayed her as an evil witch. That is the reason why Creon, the king of corinth, kicked madea out of Corinth. The father of the princess believed that Madea would do anything in her power to not let this marriage go through. If she wouldn’t have been struck by cupid, she wouldn’t have fell in love with Jason. If she wouldn’t have met Jason, none of the things she did would have happen. But it happen, and she fell in love.
Medea was punished for Jason's actions. This is called Gender inequality. Medea being a female and Jason a male, she gets hurt and punished while Jason on the other hand is going to marry another woman. In which the other woman is a princess, and they will have royal children. He could still stay in Corinth. Medea is with both kids, trying to figure out where to go since Creon forbid her from being in

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