The last scene of Medea involves Medea killing her own children. The picture in the link above shows Medea who is about to kill her children. These are Medea’s words when she is about to kill her own children: “Women, my task is fixed: as quickly as I may to kill my children, and start away from this land, and not, by wasting time, to suffer my children to be slain by another hand less kindly to them. Force every way will have it they must die, and since this must be so, then I, their mother, shall kill them. O arm yourself in steel, my heart! Do not hang back from doing this fearful and necessary wrong”(pg 721, lines 1210-1217). This quote is saying that Medea has a want for revenge even though it is a wrongful action and that she will face serious consequences after. The quote is also saying that Medea wants to kill her children in a secret manner due to the fact that she will do this “as quickly as she may.”
I have some thoughts on Medea killing her own children. First of all, killing your own children is by far selfish, wrongful, terrifying, and shocking. It has a negative impact on other loved ones in which their feelings are hurt. Medea probably killed her own children because she may have a mental illness. I am saying this because mothers on TV that kill their own children have mental illnesses. Even though Medea knows it’s “wrong” to kill her children, she still does it anyway.
