After tirelessly scattering the web, in my opinion this is by far the most powerful performance of an already powerful play. As I was reading “Medea” this is exactly how I pictured her, evil laugh and all. Eaten by grief, humiliation and betrayal by her husband, she seeks nothing less then revenge. Although this scene is only a relatively small fragment of the play, it shows Medea’s state of mind and the power that she holds, that even the King Kreon of Corinth of fears her so he bans her into exile. Even if a person just saw this clip and did not know how the story ends, it would come as no surprise to them that a women in such state of mind is capable of murdering her own children.
Most are familiar with a saying “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”. Well Medea is a ideal example of a woman who’s been scorned. Medea seeks no comfort from anyone. She has no homeland and now she has no family. If we compare the typical women of Corinth to Medea, we see that women are concerned with where Medea will go for her exile, while Medea is too busy trying to decide how best to hurt those that did her wrong.
