Unpunished Crimes in Ancient Greek Drama in Euripides' Medea
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Date
2022-05-28
Authors
Deivanayagam, Nithi
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The term “crime” covers a broad spectrum of illegal behavior, like murder, doing drugs,
theft, etc. In a typical manner speaking, when someone commits a crime, they face the people of
the law and are charged for the crime. In the Greek drama play Medea, Medea wants to get
revenge on Jason because he decided to leave her and marry the princess to give their children
better opportunities in life. Medea does not care about Jason’s reasons, but she wants to hurt him
as much as he had hurt her, and she decided the best way is to hurt things he cares about: his
lineage. As part of her vengeance scheme, she decides to kill everybody who may aid Jason in
improving his bloodline, even if they do not know that they are helping. Even though Medea
committed a large crime by murdering four people, she escapes without consequences, since she
has personal relations with the gods, and she made Aegeus take an oath promising her protection.
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4 pages
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Top Ancient Drama, essay, Greek