Medea responds to the limitations set on women in this time, in a quite vengeful way. Refusing to take care of the children, while her husband goes off to marry someone else, she makes the decision to kill Jason's new bride along with her own children. Medea inflicts the suffering Jason has made her feel onto him. This can relate to the political cartoon because after a world of only men becoming US presidents Hillary is stepping up with a vengeance to take down her competition.
Medea is driven to do these irrational actions because of the rage that has built up inside of her. This relates to the Buddha quote very literally. Medea is drinking her own poison of rage, and expecting Jason's bride and her own children to die. This is exactly what happens, but it does not dawn on Medea that the rage inside of her is poisonous. She finds that the only way she can cope with the pain Jason has caused her is to transfer that pain over to him by killing everything he has. Medea didn't take into consideration that this plan also involved killing any sense of morality she had left. In the end, she feels no remorse for Jason for she feels this is equal the amount of pain he had inflicted upon her. She wants nothing of Jason's sobbing as she says "Your words are thrown into the empty air." (1403) This poison Buddha speaks of has truly blinded Medea, and there is no going back to the days before her rage.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned! I agree that Medea's anger was like a poison. Everytime Medea thought of Jason's infidelity, this poison built up until it exploded when Medea kills Creon's daughter and her two children. Even though Medea is enraged, it is odd that she'd kill her children. When Medea kills her children she severely hurts Jason, but she is also hurting herself. Medea reached the point of no return and can no longer redeem herself.
ReplyDeleteIn her rage and vengeance, Medea breaks almost every limit Grecian society puts on her. She destroys the family, acts as an intellectual, does not still her tongue, etc. Breaking all her limitations shows the extent of her anger, and how powerful that anger can be as a catalyst in changing a person.
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