Betrayal and Revenge in the plays "Medea" and "The Libation Bearers" In 458 B.C. ... The other play I will be looking at is "Medea". Medea is the earliest tragedy of Euripides and in it we see a classic moral pattern. ... The next play I will deal with is Medea. ... This is when Medea wants to take revenge. ...
Jason in Euripides's Medea deserts his family for a new marriage which he hopes will further his station, but his old wife kills his new wife and his children, ending his hopes for a shining future. ... God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to people's houses," says the nurse in the beginning of Euripides's play Medea (119-130). She is foreshadowing the theme of the story and Euripides is voicing his message plainly through her. ... His first wife, Medea, is a powerful woman who has no place to go, so she becomes desperate. ... Even now I know that I am making a mistake...
