Within the play Medea written by Euripides, the woman/mother Medea has her emotions transformed from despair to control. She changed from constantly being overwhelmed and depressed due to her husband, Jason’s marrying for greater power; to a controlling and manipulating woman, who had rage towards everyone, yet found love for her children. However, that love for her children was something she was willing to sacrifice to destroy Jason. Medea took the title “murderer” in her past because she tricked the daughters of Pelias into killing their father when Medea told them she could make Pelias young again. Medea killed her brother Absyrtus to help Jason escape from Colchis with the Golden Fleece. She couldn’t retire the title even in her new city of Corinth. Medea was an abandoned woman with two children. She was mortified and depressed by her husband’s dishonor. She showered herself in constant tears and pity.  At one point in the story on line 65, the children’s tutor even asks “is she not done with weeping yet?” and the nurse responds with “she’s barely started” (Euripides, 65). Her depression was her weakness; it made her fierce, resembling a bull for her anger and the harm she could potentially cause someone. This broke her down, making her want to kill not only herself, but her children as well (Euripides, 100-103). Medea did not care about herself; she was awaiting her own death. As she whined and cried she constantly said “I wish I could die,” and asked when the nightmare would be over (Euripides, 105). Her workers expressed that they feared her. They feared for her children and what she was capable of doing being so enraged and depressed. Jason also wondered what she might do to his new royal family and the children he left behind. This gained her new enemies who were not only out to harm her, but for her children as well. I reacted to this greatly because I cannot imagine a mother feeling over joyed of