"When a woman feels betrayed in her love, she becomes an unforgiving killer." This is what Medea claims—the wife, the foreigner, the loving mother, the dominant female figure with an inner strength of mind and soul, the witch with divine origin.

The multifaceted Colchian princess, in a rational relationship with reality, responds passionately to her untrustworthy Greek husband. But she is not simply the paranoid betrayed woman punishing the treacherous Jason. Utterly stripped of morals and social conventions, she chooses the only heroic response—revenge. Thus, her heroic spirit prevails over the powerful maternal instinct.

Acting autonomously, she deprives Jason of what he values most in life—his children. Their death symbolizes Jason's death as a "father."

The childless Medea, alone and without offspring, cannot carry her hideous triumph across the earth. In a transcendent way, her great-grandfather's shining chariot will carry her to the land of harmony and wisdom—Athens.