How Does Empathy Cause Partial Judgement

Contrary to Euripides and Morrison, I personally believe that empathy causes partial judgement and should not influence the process of reaching adjudication. Both playwright and author intend for their audience to feel sympathy for each filicidal mother by portraying them as forlorn because of the stress misfortune has inflicted. Through doing so, they seek to build a convincing case that each woman was justified in murdering her children by living within oppressive time periods that disregarded her personhood; Medea was ostracized for actively seeking vengeance upon her husband who hastily replaced her with another in bed and Sethe was denied connate autocratic parenting and was subjected to abuse and rape under the constraints of slavery.