The story that we used in our project was Medea by Euripides. We wanted to use this plotline to address a current issue in America, which is bordering on distrust. Medea is a story about a woman who put her faith into a man, and was later betrayed and thus sought out revenge. Medea wanted to put all of the blame onto Jason and not take any of the responsibility in the situation, in the end she killed her own sons and ruined Jason's life out of spite. Our piece narrates a young man who is dealing with the aftermath of his affair on his significant other who has left him, Noah is recounting his thought on the events and how he did love the woman but he’s inability to take her feelings into account cost him his relationship.
Some of the themes in Medea that we used was Betrayal, Manipulation, and the idea of The Other. When it came to betrayal Medea
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Our main character Noah was a bit luckier seeing as his partner's answer to his affair was to just end the relationship. The next theme was manipulation, in which throughout the story of Medea, Jason manipulated Medea into helping him get the fleece. Medea also manipulated him when she tricked his fiancee with the dress and using Jason's hubris against him in the end. In our story Noah manipulates the circumstances of having a partner who was not, in his opinion, fully invested in the relationship, and therefore he may have at the time figured that he was justified. After the relationship is ended, Noah is in a remorseful mood, one where he really thinks about his actions and