The play "Medea" reminds me a lot of two movies - "The Diary of a Mad Black Woman"" and "Waiting to Exhale. In the movie "The Diary of a Mad Black Woman", the main character was cheated on by her husband and then put her out of their home and she was left with nowhere to go. In the movie "Waiting to Exhale', another woman was also cheated on by her husband and also went through a deep depression just like Medea. After she came out of her depression she set all of her husband's clothes and car on fire. Medea shares many similarities with both of these women such as going through a depression, seeking revenge, and having their trust betrayed. One passage that particularly stood out to me was lines 200 -220 on pages 849 and 850.
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Medea finally came out of her house but instead of crying and being deeply upset about Jason and Glauce, she was very calm and showed self-control. In beginning of the passage she spoke about how a person could be judged for being quiet. She went on to add that "There is no justice in the world's censorious eyes. In modern language, these two sentences happen so much in everyday life. Too often people are judged based off irrelevant things such as the clothes they were or just from they're physical appearance. How many times has a Middle Eastern person been labeled as a terrorist? Or how many times has it been assumed that all Asians are good at math? People are constantly being labeled and judge without knowing and without having their story being known. .
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Furthermore in the passage Medea says, "_ accept my place; but this blow that has fallen on me was not to be expected. It has crushed my heart. Life has no pleasure, dear friends. I want to die. Jason was my whole life; he knows that well. Now he has proven himself the most contemptible of men. " .
Some people would consider this section to be an over dramatic since Medea wanted to die after Jason left, but Jason was the one thing that she cared about more than anything.
