Both Medea and the Ramayana have different and similar views on feminism. Medea and Sita are strong willed women who both represent feminism. Although they might seem like polar opposites they share a lot of personality traits. Sita is a woman that is very much in love with her husband Rama, so much that when he is banished to the forrest for fourteen years she comes along. On the other hand there is Medea. It doesn’t look as if Medea loves Jason on the level of Sita and Rama but in reality she does. Why else would Medea be so hurt and filled with anger if she wasn’t madly in love?
Both stories always have themes of distrust. In the Ramayana, Rama is unsure if Sita stayed true to him when she was kidnapped and held captive by Ravana. If Rama would just realize how much Sita cared and loved him, he wouldhave no doubt that she did not do anything to damage their relationship. In the play Medea, of coarse the distrust occurs when Medea learns of Jason leaving her for the Princess. Medea had no reason to trust Jason after she finds out and truly takes revenge in the worst way possible. Both stories have similar themes of feminism and distrust even though they were written centuries and worlds apart.
