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Essay heading: Women's Revenge in The Oresteia and Medea
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Medea later says that she must also kill her children to
cause Jason pain. In their defining justice Clytaemnestra and Medea
both feel death is the only justice. However, with Medea she does not
intend to kill Jason.
In order for Clytaemnestra to seek justice for her daughters? death,
she had to make Agamemnon feel as though nothing was wrong... displayed 300 characters
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She laid red
tapestries for him to walk on, and made him feel as though he was
worthy enough to walk on them. Like Clytaemnestra, Medea uses her
words to make Kreon and Jason feel as though she is being sincere.
Medea convinces Kreon to let her have another day before she is
banished, by telling him that she needs to find a place to live and
that she needs to ?look for support? for her children (Medea 337-339)... displayed next 300 characters
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