Medea

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It all started when Cupid’s arrow pierced Medeas heart causing her to fall madly in love with Jason, beginning her moral corruption. Medea's overpowering manipulation through out her speeches allows one self to despise her character. Medea has the ability to coerce one to believe her evil schemes, “thought most helpless in doing good deeds, are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.”
Medea isolated herself from the chorus informing them they cannot feel the tremendous amount of pain Jason has caused her. “You have not suffered as I have,” convincing the chorus that they can’t feel her suffering, she continues to tell them her pain justifies her reasoning for her upcoming actions. Medea builds herself a wall between herself and the chorus, and in doing so she has the chorus fooled and completely for her.
In Medea’s speech begging for her one more day in Corinth she gains Creon’s pity when she speaks of her children, relating them to his own. “And to look for support for my children…have pity on them,” Medea explains how her children have nowhere to go. Medea wanted Creon to feel too guilty about her and her kids being sent away, in order to fulfill her need for revenge. “You have children on your own.” She brings the two of them together through their common shared love for their own children. She has then manipulated Creon into allowing her to stay one more day in Corinth.
Medea’s ability to manipulate one surpasses any emotion of sanity one might have. Medea consistently gains one’s respect by relating one to herself, then in gaining one’s respect Medea twists her story to set one up for an opposite outcome....