Medea Theme of Revenge

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Theme of Revenge in Medea
Introduction
The Medea play depicts the theme of revenge as its main theme with love as the contributory factor. The play points out how terribly Medea plots her plan of retaliation. From the killing of the new bride and the bride's father her vengeance commenced, and with the murdering of her two children and by leaving her husband impoverished, she succeeded in her effort of revenge. Her revenge is excessive and wicked in the sense that she has strong longing to withdraw at Jason for what he has done to her (Euripides’ Medea).
From the commencement of the play, Medea’s desire of taking revenge is noticed. Medea, a daughter of king Aeetes of Colchis had forfeited everything for Jason. Medea's search for vengeance start after her husband, Jason, abscond her to get authority and status by marrying the daughter of the king Creon. Thus, Medea is irritated by this and is planning to search for revenge on him because she killed her father and brother for the love of Jason. Her hatred for Jason became so severe that it seems to her she will go to any extent to harm him. Furthermore, it appear possible to her to sacrifice even her children since she already sacrificed herself and had nothing left to risk apart from her children. She is excessively determined to revenge in the sense that she plans to wipe out all products of her and Jason's union. The children innocence is no resistance against the enraged Medea who wants to slay them with the entire house of their father (Euripides’ Medea).
Medea's aspiration for revenge, to cut all connection between herself and her former husband is more evident when she plans to slay Jason’s new bride and her two children. Later in the play, Medea struggles between her commitment as mother and her aspiration for marriage. She consider killing her children would make her father suffer, but she will suffer as well. She instead struggles to make a decision on how to carry out her objective of revenge against Jason without slaying her children since she loves them. Sadly, Medea's yearning to carry out revenge on Jason is greater than her care for her children and she has resolved to satisfy her longing for vengeance through the children. Medea does not want her children to be victims of her enemies’ anger, since after carrying out the revenge she will have a gloomy road to travel, thus she does not consider it appropriate to make her children travel a sadder road. Medea has focused only about the objective of revenge on Jason and not the consequences it may result. When she notifies the chorus about the arrangement of slaying her children, they doubt if she will have the guts to perform the act. However, Medea replies, ''This is the way to deal with Jason deepest wound.’’ This demonstrates that she thinks that by killing her children she will essentially mess up Jason's life, successfully receiving her reprisal. Furthermore, she is determined to carry out the revenge because she states that nothing will make her to pull back from her decision of killing her children (Euripides’ Medea).
When King Creon informs Medea that she will be banished from the island of Corinth because he is worried about the safety of his daughter, she persuades King Creon into granting her an additional day. She claims to use the extra day to make plans on how she will manage in exile and find resources for her children because their father is not concerned about their welfare. Nonetheless, she instead utilizes the extra day to execute her revenge. She plans of wiping out her three enemies, the father, the daughter, and her husband. She has multiple ways of killing them and she think about setting the bridal chamber on fire or shoving a jagged sword through her liver. Nonetheless, the methods would require her to enter the palace in secret, which has high chance of her dying if she is caught carrying out her plan, eventually becoming a fool to her enemies. Rather than using risk ways to carry out her plans, she says “best the straight route in which I am most skilled, to take them off with poisons”. However, she does not poison them directly, but uses her son to accomplish her intention. She plans of sending her children to the palace with gifts in their hands. They will carry a dress of soft weave and a tiara of beaten gold; take them to the bride and request for amnesty from exile. If she receives them in her hands and places them on her flesh, she and everyone who touches her will die a terrible death. The plan will be horrible because she will smear the deadly poison on the gifts. The deadly poison will slay her children as well, but she argues that no one would take her children and although she will endure guilt, but the laughter of her enemies she will not tolerate (Euripides’ Medea).
Medea accomplishes the act of killing Jason’s new bride by sending her children to take poisoned gown to the bride, which also ends up killing the king of Cor...