In the Greek Tragedy, Medea, Medea was betrayed greatly by her husband. Her passionate love switched to passionate hate, and contradicted her role as a mother with her fulfilling her vengeance. She obsesses over he plan for revenge over Jason bringing her to question rather or not she should sacrifice the lives of their two sons, in order to swipe Jason’s smile off his face, and fully overcome him. Medea passion, without Jason to level it out, can be unfortunate and defiling. Bringing Medea to believe that the only way to fully defeat Jason was to complete a task that would also cause her grief, but when passion or obsession interferes with responsibilities one must prevail. In this case passion prevailed and Medea overcame Jason.
The capacity of Jason’s betrayal hardened Medea leading her to curse her house and children. She felt belittled and betrayed, indifferent and powerless against the role of women in Greek. Feeling that women were only to do nothing less than what their husband asked. Not able to speak up when her husband’s eyes pried on some other woman. Medea was devoted to Jason despite this. She suffered alienation from her family for despising them, and lost many friends. Jason’s lack of emotion and reasoning lead him to make this not-thought-out- enough choice, the choice to leave her for the Princess Crusa to promote his status. His betrayal brought out imperfections in Medea, imperfections to reason and overcome. So Medea sought up the one plan she must carry out in order avenge Jason, even if it could also cause her grief.
For her vengeance to be fully fulfilled she would have to kill their two sons. She discovered how important offspring were to men; it’s the ability to have your name carry on. Medea debated against this task, but decided it was the only way to fully overcome Jason. If there were another way she surely would have found it. She questioned which was more important, revenge or responsibility. Medea picked revenge and prevailed over Jason.
Medea role as a mother was not taken lightly. She loved her children dearly. Murdering them was not done heartlessly, but as a result of justice prevailing. The role of Greek women pressed on her shoulders as her husband who she dearly loved betrayed her, contradictory of responsibilities with passion and obsession. Obsessive love, Obsessive hate. Sacrificing your love ones lives to bring your once loved one pain, and in the end rising above Jason in a chariot symbolizing her overcoming him. The grief brought onto her by her own plan was great, but his grief was greater. For he profited nothing except to never take a woman’s love for granted, because it can as easily turn to hate.

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