The play Medea by Euripides, I believe is an over dramatic version of the average divorced family in today’s society. The play is prioritised around a wife (medea) seeking revenge on her unfaithful husband (Jason). Jason and medea have two children which medea has decided to kill in order to get back at unfaithful husband. Medea believes the pain of killing two children will be over powered by the satisfaction of hurting her husband. Yes, this is a really dramatic play.
Obviously these kinds of actions would not go unpunished in today’s society and even if one was to mention such thoughts, it would cause some serious questioning. I’m not an expected on the topics of marriage failures but It’s hard to not be related to one in today’s culture. It’s almost fully accepted to get a divorce today for any reason. However, i think the play medea is a dramatic version of todays divorces in the sense that the children are the ones who suffer the most. In the play the children suffer the ultimate price there life, today the children are more likely to suffer emotional and mental damage. Marriage is a sacred bond that should be honoured by both parties.
Daniel—Yes, I agree that there is a connection between the play Medea and today’s average divorced family. In Medea and in today’s divorces, children are the ones who are affected most. I also think that the parents (especially the one who doesn’t want the divorce) are obviously emotionally and mentally affected but maybe not to the degree we thought. Medea took the divorce really hard and in today’s culture divorce is so common that I think we sometimes say, “oh you got a divorce, no big deal” but in reality the parents are taking it extremely hard just like Medea.
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