Sophocles "oedipus rex":medea"
...ugh to be his mother. In the case of Medea she commits at least three horrible crimes. First she kills her brother in order to help her husband Jason to escape from her father. Second, she kills the daughter of King Creon who is supposed to become future wife of Jason. Third, she commits ultimate crime of murdering her own children as a final act of revenge on Jason. In the next section I will contrast Oedipus and Medea. I believed that Oedipus is the victim of his faith and the good intensions of his character can be found in these actions. As soon as he finds out about the prophecy saying that he is meant to kill his father and marry his mother he travels to the oracle of Apollo to find out if it is true. When he learns that the prophecy is true he decides to live his parents and the kingdom he growth up in order to escape his faith. On the other hand, Medea chooses her own faith when she decides to kill her brother and escape her motherland .Similarly her choice to kill the future wife of Jason can not be justified on the bases of her feeling of hurt and disappointment that her husband was cheating on her. It is true that she sacrifices a lot in order to be with her husband but she was not forced to make the sacrifice of leaving her family, friends and motherland and no amount of her feeling can justified revenge in a form of cold blooded murder. Lastly as a final act of revenge on Jason she killed her own children. In summary both characters choose to leave their motherland, however their intensions are very different. Oedipus lives his parents in order to avoid killing his father, Medea chooses to kill her brother in order to help Jason escape her father. Lastly the most important difference between Oedipus and Medea is the degree to which they are responsible for the wrong decisions they make and they extend to which they deserve their final faith. Oedipus chooses to blind himself when he finds out that he was the one who killed his father and married his mother. He chooses this harsh punishment for himself because he is no longer able to look for his children and asks Creon to care of them. All through it seems very harsh punishment who had being mainly victim of series of coincidences that led to fulfillment of his tragic prophecy, he does make number of decisions of his free will what cannot completely take away his guilt. That is to say, he does not believe his adopted parents that he is not their son, he kills the old man even through he knows that any old man could b...