Hello! For my November MOR, I partnered up with Olivia to read Medea by Euripides. Don't know much about it...hopefully it's interesting!

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I don’t think it was right to kill her children at all, but she believed her revenge against Jason was final; the death of his own children along with his new bride will be the most severe injury he is capable of suffering, even if it means Medea must hurt herself in the process. She decides to proceed with the murder, “The evil that I do I understand full well. But a passion drives me greater than my will. Passion is the curse of man: it wreaks the greatest ill” (377).  The theme of betrayal is shown once again here, but it is Medea betraying her family now. How could she just kill her two sons that she carried for 18 months total and the whole process..? Sheesh. A messenger comes to Medea shouting at her that she must flee. She is startled and asks why, but soon finds out that she is the suspect for Glauce and Creon’s murder. The messenger recreates the scene of the murder in which Glauce put on the crown and the gold dress, both are poisonous, and begin to eat away at h...
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