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In the beginning everything was fine Medea and her family were welcomed with open arms but it was until Jason had left them and the house was filled with hatred because Medea was upset that he had left after all that she had done for him. She refused to eat , she stood in her room, cried the days away , sometimes she would call out for her father, her country and her home: all abandoned and betrayed for a man who now abandons her, betrays her honor and her love ( pg 6, line 32-34 ). So now she wants personal revenge to punish him for his actions only to get the delight that revenge brings to herself. Jason left from Medea ‘for a royal bed’ is said by the ( pg, line 22 ) which shows the audience to look at Jason as a selfish man. Medea did …show more content…

When Creon, the king of Corinth ordered Medea to leave the land and go into exile to take her children with her for he had heard the cries of making threats against the bride, her father, and the man she is to marry. She begs him to stay for she doesn’t have anywhere to go and how to provide for her children to take pity on them hoping he would understand because he is a parent as well. ( pg 22 line 341- 345 ). He did let her stay but only had one more day knowing he was to make a mistake but had felt bad because he is a parent too. Creon had the chance to banish her, and ruin everything but instead he has given him the whole day and time to turn all three, all three enemies the father , the daughter, and her husband into corpse meat ( pg 25 , lines 373-377 ). She had planned many paths of death for them “ shall I turn the bridal house to cinders ? stick them all like suckling pigs ? slink in quietly and slice them in their beds ? The best road is the most direct, a way in which we are most skilled: I’ll take them by poison ( pg 24 , line 378 - 386 ). Now she has to find another place to go to after she has finished killing but

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