JUSTICE

 Fairness
 Equity
 Impartiality
 Lack of bias
 What is right
 Law
 Integrity
 Ethics
 Morality
 Honesty
 Principle

The breaking of trust and oaths is an injustice (particularly in the eyes of the gods)

INJUSTICES BY JASON

 Marrying Glauce without discussing it with his wife

 Almost abandoning his family to increase his social standing when they did nothing wrong to
him
 Regarding women as property
 Breaking oaths made to gods

INJUSTICES BY MEDEA

 Murders (brother, Pelias, Glauce, Creon, sons)

 Gets away with murder

INJUSTICES-OTHER CHARACTERS

 Creon- banishment
 Gods (Jason’s perspective)- letting Medea get away with everything)

QUOTES

 “Jason has betrayed my lady and his own children for a princess’ bed”- Nurse
 “She calls upon Themis, who listens to prayer and upon Zeus, the appointed steward of
mortal oaths?”- Nurse
 “So ungovernable now that she has felt the sting of injustice”- Nurse
 “May you be struck down by...Justice who punishes murder”- Jason
 “The criminal with a gift for speaking deserves the worst of punishments”- Medea
 “There is no justice in the eyes of men”- Medea
 “I am being wronged by Jason though I have done him no wrong”- Medea
 “Devise some ways of making my husband pay for this suffering of mine”- Medea
 “Oh great Themis and lady Artemis do you see what I suffer though I bound my husband by
weighty oaths?”- Medea
 “You can not evade punishment”- Messenger
 “Recompense is coming for the female sex. No more shall we women endure the burden of
ill-repute”- Chorus
 “All this I have done for you and yet you have betrayed me”- Medea
 “You have desecrated the king’s home… have you no fear of the consequences?”-Messenger
 “You have betrayed your wife and are behaving unjustly”- Chorus
 “It is just that you should take revenge upon your husband”- Chorus
 “Poor lady… driven without rights into exile.”- Chorus
 “You have come to know justice and the use of law”- Jason
 “Wicked husband, traitor to her bed. She calls upon the gods to witness how unjustly she is
treated”- Chorus