... opinion, Medea expresses far more human emotions than Jason. To me, she expresses vengeance such as every bitter rejected girlfriend dreams of wreaking on their lost love, and takes it to a higher moral (and actual) level. In Medea's mind, what she does is not in the slightest bit immoral, but a just retaliation for a broken heart. Granted, the way in which she brings about this payback is hardly conceivable to a sane human mind, and not what one expects others to do, but on an emotional and moral scale, the fact that she destroys Jason's whole world in retaliation is understandable; to a passionate woman like Medea, love is an extremely powerful feeling, and Jason in a sense was her world and her whole life. Although cunning, scheming and self-controlled, one must realise that, while not literally insane, Medea was not in touch with humanity as a whole and ...

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