Medea

Time Changes Everything In the tragedy Medea, written by Euripides the language applies to the time it was written, much like any other form of written media. The reactions and actions taken by Medea are not common for a time period like our own. At this day and age we’ve learned how to react without killing someone, and how to not plot our revenge in such a spiteful way. Medea doesn’t distinguish right from wrong in her actions, heart of head applies perfectly to her and her reactions. Today we have the knowledge of chemicals, torture, weapons, and psychological understanding. If these ideas and inventions were applied to modern day Medea, the end results could become much worse; however, we don’t know what she would do and how she would
Love never amounts to what we truly hope and believe it will be. Medea was once a young girl with a big dream of hoping to move forward and get married. It’s every dream that every little girl has, but not everything can be accomplished by love. Marriage is an illusion that we have set, we have this idea that it’s forever and perfect but as it shows in Medea, marriage isn’t forever. Being left for another woman, being given encouragement, and having created a plan Medea is allowed to live with and by herself. She can make the plans for herself and she can leave all of this mess, but she doesn’t. No justice will suffice for her thirst for retribution. This is very different from our standards today, we are now allowed to take this justice that Medea seeks to court. We move forward from disputes and divorces with court cases and lawyers. We make the proper arrangements to make sure we don’t run into these issues that can await us once we’ve made the choice to end a marriage, a prenup saves thousands of problems. Although Medea has multiple outbursts and feelings within the tragedy, there is no real way to convey what would happen if she was to be in this era. The opportunities for her to escape her feelings are endless, from vacationing to mental hospitals, she always has a door out. Revenge she wants so desperately would have never gone this out of hand. The idea of death and killing for revenge in our society is thought of as pointless due to the harsh, and deserved, consequences. She never would have gotten away with being married to someone of such a high social class and inflict murder and revenge