Medea seems be a smart woman. Well, she appears to take the stand of a smart woman by her cleverness. Her intelligence has caused her to suffer. Reason being, she had let herself over think and at the end she lost it all. However, she was able to out smart the Corinth Chorus by letting them agree with Nurse. The Nurse did not speak highly of Jason. Medea also led Jason to believe that her actions and her words were harmless, but Jason being blinded by her apologies did not realized it was all apart of Medea’s sick plan to kill Creon’s daughter and her two children. Let’s not forget! How Medea cleverly charmed her escape with Aegeus. Medea loves to use her drugs and her spills to manipulate for her own selfish desires. Medea may not appear to “best” wife or woman, but she does play cards correctly when it comes to getting her way or revenge. I strongly believe Medea’s state of mind is not up to par. Her actions in killing her brother to escape from her family, killing her two children and Creon’s daughter to being sorrow to Jason’s heart, Medea has officially lost her mind. Meaning, her intelligence made her over think and over react. I do not stand by Medea and her actions and I do not stand by Jason for leaving Medea. I just believe that Medea was not truly thinking about her actions. She was just using her intelligence and her gods to get her way. However, on another hand, Medea’s actions towards Jason does’t remind you of how women unpredictable thinking can cause them to act irrational? Or maybe Jason was intimidated by Medea’s smartest? Or maybe Jason was amazed by Medea’s cleverness?

Picture of Medea killing her children (from google)

This image is a relief sculptured. Remembered from Art History. This image shows the children giving Creon’s daughter the gifts from Medea.

This is video with Medea and Aegeus interaction. I loved this video cause of the ASL about 10mins.