Medea

How far does Euripides suggest that murder might be justified?

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In context, Euripides does not explicitly justify murder, but rather, he explores the profundity of human suffering, the desire or need for revenge, and the blurred lines between justice and vengeance.

“Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”

“For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.”

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