Since Euripides’ play “Medea” is still one of the most controversial plays ever written about the evocations of women’s rights, there are many dissimilar opinions on the justification for Medea’s choice of infanticide. The two most distinct sides are, that her reasoning and her actions were completely vindicated and the other is that her reasoning and her actions were entirely erroneous and unethical. Her severe anger and turmoil caused by Jason marrying another …showed first 75 words of 1084 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1084 total…a chariot drawn by dragons. However, the rest of the story does continue on with Aegeus and Medea. Medea keeps her promise to Aegeus in a twisted way, by baring his child named Medus. The question I arose to with this, is whether her intentions when she initially made her promise to Aegeus were sort of innocent or premeditated. By premeditated I mean did she consciously promise Aegeus to intentionally bear his child or not?