How Powerful Women Reinforce The Feminine Supremacy Of Medea

How powerful woman reinforce the masculine supremacy in Medea Medea, is Greek tragedy written by Euripides in 431 BCE, based upon the unhappy love story of Jason and Medea. The plot focuses on the actions of one powerful woman, Medea, the wife of Jason; she finds life difficult after Jason betrays and leaves her for a Greek princess of Corinth. Hence, Medea takes vengeance on Jason by acting like a â€Å"barbarian† and killing Jason’s new wife as well as her own children with him, after which she finds a new place in Athens to start a new life. By highlighting Medea, a strong woman in a patriarchal society, Euripides challenges his audience to look beyond the stereotypes of a traditional woman, ironically, he shows how a powerful woman can actually reinforce the patriarchal ideology. In Act one, Nurse introduces Medea and claims the unequal treatment of women in Greek society. Addressing that Jason â€Å"calls the old bond a barbarian mating, not a Greek marriage† (Euripides 9), later the chorus speaks on the wretched women in Corinth who suffer from the unfaithful actions of men. In Medea’s soliloquy, she rages on the fact that she was submissive and obedient to Jason under the dowry system. The audiences can infer that women in Corinth had little power in a marriage that controlled their lives. The unique dowry system prohibits women’s freedom in the choice, establishes many sexual and marital inequalities. All these restrictions put the â€Å"good and submissive† wife under their