Why Is Medea Still Relevant Today

The novel Medea by Euripides is a ancient Greek tragedy based on the myth of Jason and Medea. The hole story is centered on Medea's actions and even more so on the theme of betrayal. When Jason leaves Princess Medea for another Princess named Corinth, Medea becomes vengeful. She enacts her revenge by killing Jason's mistress and, her own children. After all this she leaves to go to Athens Greece. The main focus is on women killing their own children; a term for killing your own child is called maternal filicide. Whether it be for revenge towards their spouse, mental disorder, or drug addiction the act is murder nothing more nothing less. Personally I don't believe any killing of a born child is justified. The events to lead someone to such
Maybe if more so in today's world. One case came up while looking on Google for women similar to Medea's situation and while looking I found a couple of cases like China Arnold who had killed her three week old daughter brutally in a fit of rage because she was fighting with her boyfriend about who the biological father was. This is a small example of many others showing how deranged a mother can be. In most cases these woman are already mentally disturbed before they commit the crime. A history of mental disorder, drug abuse, religious calling from the devil, or even greed; taking out life insurance on their family to receive money if they should “accidentally die”, is the most common comparisons in all of these cases I’ve researched. Fiona Donnison another example killed her two children to get back at her husband. Ellise her daughter was only two, and her son Harry was just three. She had gone to the police station and confessed what she had done, just as Medea proclaimed to Jason her killing of her children. Both Medea and Fiona are similar in their reasons of killing and how they owned up to it after the