Part 1 of Essay
Personal vengeance is not a flattering characteristic. When people wish to change a situation they are in it is wise to use rational methods. In Euripides' Medea, Medea and all the women of fifth century Athens wee not treated well. By examining Medea's continuous use of evil and her plot to kill her own children, Creon, ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... for her as a foreigner without a country. Then she gives her reason for getting the women to sympathize with her. "If I can find the means or devise any scheme to pay my husband back for what he has done to me - Him and his father in law and the girl who married him." (260-263) It may have seemed in the beginning of the monologue that Medea was out to join forces with the other women in complaint to the way they are treated, but Medea was out for revenge. That was underling everything she said. When one loo ....