beloved medea

Mothers always try to make the correct decisions for their children. Whether it is with their children?s friends, their behavior, or any other aspect of their life. The Mother in Beloved by Toni Morrison, as well as the mother in Media by Euripides, makes decisions concerning the survival of their children, but were these mothers looking out for the best interest of their child or themselves. In Beloved by Toni Morrison, the mother makes …

…the character everyone sympathized for to being the character hated by everyone. This act was completely animal like, and there is no possible was that Medea was sane at the time of the murder. She must have gone insane when she heard that Jason was cheating on her, because there is not a soul on the Earth that can kill their own flesh and blood and not feel guilty in anyway possible, like Medea did.