Medea

Here is the famous angry woman Medea in Greek mythology. In this picture, Medea stands up powerfully with having all anger towards her husband Jason. She is clearly obsessed with anger towards not only her husband, but also herself because of the fact that she somehow trusts what she has in her life yet she can no longer rely on nobody’s royalty and feels helpless. Being her role as a wife establishes her personality and brings meanings to her life. She sees her life actually collapsing in front of her because of her husband dishonesty and betrayal and she becomes desperate. Poor angry woman has nowhere to turn into and ends up killing her husband’s new bride, bride’s father who is the king of Corinth and Medea’s own children.

Killing her own children is such an intense ending; however, I somehow understand her frustration as a woman. This picture illustrates that she has nothing to lose or to look back. She loses what she has believed in, loved and trusted so much that she has to do anything which includes killing her own children to fulfill her emotion that has been taken away from her. Greek methodology always contains some philosophical messages for us to tell. Medea apparently tells emotional side of womanhood which tells us the fact that women generally are emotional creatures and this fact has not been changed since 430 B.C. up until today.