t society. At one point he goes so far to say that he wishes there was some other way to go about getting children, then women would not be needed. This entails that he feels that women are only useful for bearing children. Medea senses the foul ingratitude in Jason with these words: "...I think that the plausible speaker who is a villain deserves the greatest punishment. Confident in his tongue's power to adorn evil, He stops at nothing. Yet he is not really wise." As well as: "If you were not a coward, you would not have married behind my back, but discussed it me first." Jason's ideas about women in society, and hence Medea's role in society, should be one of adoration and supplication towards men. The statement later on the in the play that the world has turned upside down, results from the fact that Medea has taken on the actions and qualities of a brutal and barbaric man. We have to ask ourselfs, if this were a man committing these acts would he still feel she was so brutal and unnatural? One would most likely have to say that a man killing his children is a bad thing, but it would seem more natural since we are use to men being pictured as brutal and warlike. In the final scene, the princess recieves a gift suitable for a royal mistress. As an engagement gift Medea offers the princess a golden vestiment in exchange for her sons' approvale. Little did the princess suspect that this gift was her doom. As she tried the beutiful peice she was burned alive along with her father by the gift. This vengance repaid Medea, in blood, for stealing her bed and betraying the santity of her marrage. The same loyalty and trust which the princess expects from marrage, she herself betrayed by sleeping with Jason. The princess was consumed bye the flame of justice. What other fait can she expect for herself after such a sin? With the death of the princess, the king, for a few moments felt the despair of her burning daughter, just as Mede...
