Medea and Infanticide: Analyzing Reasons her motives from Altruism to Spousal Revenge. Determined, calculating and remorseless, Andrea Yates committed a filicidal crime that left the world in confusion, fear and disgust. Heeding only Satan’s call, defying her motherly instincts and ignoring their frantic apologizes, she drowned her five children in the bathtub. The eldest, Noah, seven years old, had to witness his mother take the life of his siblings ruthlessly and return their corpses back in their
The tripartite prism and “Medea” Different from nowadays where the individualism predominates around the world, back in the day in ancient Greece the collectivity was valued more. In our case “Medea” we have another type a friendship, we have the princess Medea which killed her own brother and left her country only to marry Jason, but after a particular time Jason betrayed her by marrying another women, and the revenge caused by Medea was “Crazy”. According to (Larocco) we have two types of revenge
Literacy of Monstrosity: Medea as a Monstrous Force The overarching idea or concept of monster in fiction cannot be defined as single component but rather a very in-depth, specific, dependent, and multiplex building block. Monster didn’t emerged from just gruesome appearance but also other factors that make the idea of monstrosity appealing to the audience and their desire. In Medea, Medea is viewed as a monstrous force or monster through her actions derived from psychological problems or injuries