A Man's View

In "Medea", Jason has the audacity to think that Medea acts out of "mere sexual jealousy" when she kills their children. He believes that she is a lowly creature after killing her brother and betraying her father (albeit to help Jason succeed). This is not an uncommon way to think of women in that time, however, as women in Ancient Greece had very few rights other than keeping the home and having and raising children. But this way of thinking only reinforces Jason's role of this tragic play. For while Medea may be seen as the tragic character who goes mad and kills everyone, it is Jason who experiences everyone around him being murdered.

Works Cited: 

Reid, Matthew C., and Grant Gillett. "The Case of Medea: A View of Fetal-Maternal Conflict." Journal of  Medical Ethics 23.1 (1997): 19-25. Web. 30 Oct. 2010.