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Essay / Jury Trial: Medea on Trial - 580
Medea lived on Colchis, which is an island in the Black Sea, and the Greeks considered it the "end of the earth" and a "barbarian territory." Medea is a witch and also a princess, she used her powers to help Jason obtain the Golden Fleece, she then ended up falling in love with him, and left with Jason to live in Lolcus. Medea was a faithful wife and she and Jason had two children together. Jason betrays Medea and marries another woman, daughter of Creon, the king of Corinth. Jason's weak justifications for his actions for what he did to Medea make him a weak and unsympathetic character. In Medea's tiral against Jason, I found Medea innocent. Even though she killed four people, she thought it was justified and only did it out of anger for Jason's bad actions. Medea's actions were justified and she killed these four people because Jason needed to suffer for his actions. Medea did whatever it took to make Jason suffer because of what he had done to her. Medea was wronged by Jason, she was a faithful wife and mother who was betrayed by her husband and reacted in a way...