In the beginning of the book, the main heroine, Medea, starts to threaten revenge on her husband, Jason. She states “If I can find the means or devise any scheme to pay my husband back for what he has done to me”. Through this she is just touching on her anger that she has built up within her for her husband. The main theme of the play is: “What goes around comes around.” The theme of revenge in the sense of Medea’s strong desire to seek revenge on Jason.
Many Greek plays contain female characters that take the role of the villain, the victim, or the heroine. Many people think that she is that she is a frightening character, but we have to think in a real woman’s point of view, what would you do if your husband left you for another woman? In this case revenge was the correct move to make, because of what Medea did for Jason. …show more content…
Jason claimed that leaves Medea would be better for both Medea and their children, because he “got in good with the king”. Jason obviously is not caring about his wife who actually killed to be with him. He does however still love his children. His flaw of apathy or the fact that he is not perseverant cause his downfall when Medea has his wife (the princess) murdered as well as his children. This causes Jason to be extremely disturbed – but it is