e may think of some dreadful things. . .. She will never put up with / The treatment she is getting. . . . . She's a strange woman" (Med. 60).
In the background of Medea's betrayal by Jason is that she gave up everything to become his wife. Daughter of the king who possessed the Golden Fleece, she so loved Jason that she helped him obtain the treasure, in the process enabling Jason to kill her father, Colchis, and brother and thus making her return to her homeland impossible. Some years and two sons later, Jason leaves Medea to marry the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth. Medea reacts to being put aside with vengefulness: "My hateful husband. I pray that I may see him, / Him and his bride and all their palace shattered / For the wrong they dare to do me without cause" (Med. 64). Medea openly shares with the women of Corinth the extremity of hr feelings and her plan of revenge: "For in other ways a woman / Is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sigh
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