1. Euripides and Women
By examining the treatment of women, Euripides points out the injustices of his society and attempts to make a point about this injustice.
Euripides recognizes that many of the works of his time defamed women’s character and that they reinforced male-dominated order by teaching women to accept (and even enjoy) subordination

2. Elevating the Status of the Oppressed
Women and servants are represented in a way that defies traditional Ancient Greek values
The Nurse and Tutor express their views (even when their views, if known, could cause them harm)
The Tutor is privy to information that the protagonist does not yet have

3. Giving a Voice to the Oppressed
The Chorus of Corinthian Women, the Nurse, and Medea all express their opinion of Medea’s situation with Jason (this opinion defies the norms of Ancient Greek society)
All female characters are seen in public, without the representation of a male
Medea inspires fear within a male, who is also a king
Medea is more clever than the males in the story (she successfully manipulates Creon, Jason, and Aegeus)

4. Euripides and Medea
Medea is clearly presented as a self-centered, fiercely proud, ruthless woman
Her force, intellect, and strength of will all exceed her place in society
Her ruthlessness, cunning, power, and brilliance would all be admirable traits in a male; but her position of weakness, not ruler or warrior, warp these qualities.
Having a female anti-hero in Ancient Greece was unheard of

5. Euripides and Jason
Euripides takes Jason, a known hero of Greek stories, and creates in him an unremarkable, despicable person.
He is portrayed as opportunistic, shallow, smug, and condescending.
Virtually everyone feels for Medea’s situation, which in turn reveals their judgment against Jason.

6. The Importance of Oaths and Vows
Zeus is a protector of oaths, so Jason will have to face his wrath (this is how the Chorus of Corinthian women try to reason with Medea)
The Chorus of Corinthian women are bound by their promise to Medea to keep her plans of betrayal secret
Medea uses the power of the oath to manipulate Aegeus; he must allow her to live with him as well as protect her from her enemies, if she can find a way to Athens

7. The Main Point
By granting unlimited self-absorption and ruthlessness to a woman, Euripides exposes the traits for what they really are.
Euripides does not give a tragedy where our heroine learns a lesson from a downfall. No redeeming transformation will take place, there is no epiphany, merely emotional release through the alter ego.

8. Contemporary Psychology and Medea
The Alter-Ego: Medea also speaks of our own desires to seek revenge to the fullest. She taps into our secret unfulfilled fantasies, and perhaps, this is why her story remains one of the most popular today.
The Medea Complex: Psychologically Murderous hatred by a mother for her child or children, arising from a desire for revenge on her husband

9. Medea’s rescue by Helios (Titan Sun God) is an example of Deus Ex Machina
The idea is centered around savior by an unseen force
Aristotle, “It is obvious that the solutions of plots too should come about as a result of the plot itself, and not from a contrivance, as in Medea."
Deus Ex Machina
Defined as “God from the Machine”
Comes from the use of the “machine” on stage
Aristotle  Spectacle

10. After the Play Medea marries Aegeus, has son named Medus
Tries to poison Aegeus’ first son Theseus (fails; is banished)
Goes back to Colchis, helps father get kingdom back, Medus eventually becomes King of Colchis
Eventually becomes immortal
Jason dies alone, in obscurity
The God’s anger causes a piece of his own ship to fall on him

11. Final thoughts
It has been suggested that by scholars that Medea often speaks with Euripides’ rage. His works were not received well by his contemporaries. A man too clever for those around him, as Medea was too clever for those around her. It’s possible that Medea’s unbridled revenge is Euripides’ unbridled revenge against his contemporaries.