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 C...