In Euripides play, "The Medea", Medea is an example of a women who suffered from her stolen innocence. She is a princess from the non-Greek land of Colchis. The outcome of her trials with her husband Jason has caused her to become the powerful, barbarian like women she portrays in the end of the play. Medea's memory of her young na�ve self evokes her lost identity that leads her to her eventual ruthlessness. The center plot of the play is how Medea's barbarian origins originated from Jason's actions. His leaving her caused her to become the personification of revenge. Medea fell in love with a man named Jason who was new to her homeland where she was safe and secure. She is taken from her