It is easy to see Medea as a betrayed wife and to forget she is a powerful magician, how do you see Medea? Although Medea is a powerful magician this does not become evident until she is betrayed by Jason and causes her to use her powers to enact revenge on him for the “wrong’s he has done” to her. Not only is that but she is also a clever woman and cruel hearted. …showed first 75 words of 347 total…

…showed last 75 words of 347 total…children. Medea is a clever woman, she plays off the males in the play’s weaknesses, she gives them “sweet-talk” tells Jason that “he wise to think of his family” and she was “only thinking of herself”. She tells Creon that she is only a women and when that doesn’t work she calls onto his side of pity, “you are a father too” to then once again his soft heart shall be his ruin.