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Wrong! It's time for Jason to dump the "barbarian" now that he has no more use for her and marry the beautiful princess Glauce. Nothing personal, he says. He's not even marrying her for love but for the money and power, which he'll use to keep Medea and the kids in their gilded cage. He tells Medea to accept this peacefully and be content as the [[The Mistress|woman on the side.]]
[[What an Idiot!]]! Jason has created the original [[Woman Scorned]], and for the [[Greek Chorus]], it's only a question of whom she intends to kill--herself, or Jason. Neither. Medea [[Murder the Hypotenuse|kills the new girl]] and Glauce's father (King Creon, not be confused with Creon of the Thebes tetralogy), who arranged the marriage, but decides simply killing Jason would be too good for him. A conversation with the as-yet-childless Aegeus teaches her the cruelest, most painful, most unbearable punishment to inflict on a man--the death of his children. She takes their two children off-stage and kills them... but she struggles with it a bit first.
The death of her children was justifiable in Ancient Greek culture, as, because Medea was foreign born, neither of them were considered freeborn--so after their father remarried, they would be cut off from all inheritence and at extreme risk of being sold as slaves. Originally the murder doubled as revenge and a mercy-killing, though this is sometimes lost to modern audiences.
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* [[Tragic Mistake]] - Jason's pride and machismo lead to his downfall and the deaths of his bride and children.
* [[The Unfettered]] - Medea is willing to kill anyone -- even her own children -- to gain her revenge.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]] - Medea gives one to Jason.
* [[Woman Scorned]]
* [[Yandere]] - Medea, according to modern interpretations, and therefore, [[Ur Example|the original]].
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