ôWhat justification you have for your present abominable way of life û mistress of the murderer who helped you kill my father,ö (Sophocles, 410).
The theme of dysfunctional family relations is prevalent in both Medea and Electra. In Medea, we see that both Jason and Medea are extremely dysfunctional, though Medea more so even than her adulterous and ambitious husband. While Jason abandons his wife and children to advance his hold on