Medea Grief Essay

In response to Medea, I feel nothing but sadness for her life and what prolonged her to tormenting herself. However, with the way Medea chose to handle that grief into revenge is something I don’t agree with and didn’t feel like that alone justified her actions.These cruel acts of fate are not to be forgotten by her but instilled in her mind as she wonders day by day in agony. This suffering is mainly caused by the distance between Medea and her husband, Jason. About Greek mythology, an idealized woman is one who cannot do anything wrong, accept every flaw the man who she is with to open arms and beauty that seems unattainable to people.

For Medea, she is currently in a situation by which her husband is cheating on her with another woman. It’s not explained whether Jason has feelings for the Queen of Love or that he’s tired of staying with Medea and their two sons. Medea is going through the stages of grief which is caused by stabbing her husband placed on her. She has no one to turn to for her family and close loved ones except for the god of Zeus. Zeus laments Medea’s shattered heart as she explains that it feels hopeless if they can ever make it work between the two of them.

She is now driven to the madness of these events by thinking to herself what’s the best way to get revenge on her cheating husband. By thinking to herself that getting rid of everything that Jason holds dear to himself, that alone will satisfy her need for revenge and will make her peace with the gods above. For the rest of the events that takes place in Medea’s revenge, this is where I start to disagree with her actions in justifying her shattered heart and the destruction of her sanity. She puts her husband’s mourning over the killing of their children to put her mind at