The Medea: Women's Rights Personal vengeance is not a flattering characteristic. When people wish to change a situation they are in it is wise to use rational methods. In Euripides' Medea, Medea and all the women of fifth century Athens wee not treated well. By examining Medea's continuous use of evil and her plot to kill her own children, Creon, and the princess, it will be clear that the Medea was not a plea for women's liberation for it was a deceitful plan of revenge. In the first episode in the Medea, Medea appeals to the women in the Corinthian chorus with words about their sad predicament. She speaks about how they must buy a husband for a huge price. How they are not treate