Political Questions as Addressed in Medea by Euripides

Political Questions as Addressed in Medea by Euripides’

 Medea is an ancient Greek play written by Euripides, and this play is based on the myth story of Jason and Medea. It first came into existence in 431 BC, and the main character Medea is a former princess of barbarian from the kingdom of Colchis, and the wife of Jason.

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Jason leaves Medea for another princess from Corinth Greek. Medea gets jealous of the two and she acts angrily by killing Jason’s new wife and his two sons as a form of revenge for Jason leaving her, and then she ran to Athens to start a new life (Euripides).

The life of Jason and Medea is actually surrounded by politics, and throughout the story, you will realize that they two are related to civic life. For example, the power structure, and the Corinthians who were naturally born in this area, but are two different aspects and classes which do not show any similarity (Fletcher, 5).

One of the political questions in Medea is trying to determine where the citizens are, and when this question is critically analyzed in this play, it will be easy to determine the image ofthe play. Apart from this question, there is another sententious political question which can also be asked, what’s the interest in the relationship between men and women. And these two questions provide enough and inner information about the prevailing politics of Medea play.

The first political question that can be clearly asked in this play is, where are the citizens? In determining the whereabouts of the citizens, they are first talked about in the play in the Medea’s nurse speech, the nurse mentions that Medea’s existing relationship with the citizens (Euripides, 2-3).

She claims that Medea is trying to satisfy and please the citizens who belongs to the same land where she camas from. So it is clear to see that there is a good political and social relationship between Medea and the citizens. Base on Corti’s statements (12), Medea used her special gifts to save the community from anger, she only used it for build a better community instead of doing evil.

From the first part of the play, Medea talks to Chorus and Creon and want to indicate that male opponents in the political area are lack of adequate political awareness (citation). She argues that the male characters acts on their interests and seldom of them act for the interests of the community, that they do not know the problems that are faced by the members of the communities.

According to Medea, it is only her and Chorus that show positive motivations of helping the community and does not act on the basic of personal interests (citation). So relationship between Medea and women citizens in Corinth is better than the relationship of Jason with other people of the community, and the character traits possessed by all women in the play is better than Jason’s (Citation).

Based on the good relationship between Medea and this woman for instance Chorus, actually one can conclude that their relationship is based on Medea’s mental as with pra