true love
... Medea and Jason meet in Medea’s home, Colchis, and here Jason and Medea fall in love. ... When Medea meets Jason she falls in love with him and he asks her to help him get the Golden Fleece. ... If Medea did not love Jason she could have given him a potion that would kill him. ... She takes the life of her own flesh and blood for the hope that her love will remain. ... “When once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood (263). ... Medea has so much power over people yet she is empowered by her deep love for Jason. Betraying her own family, killing her own brother and children, taking revenge of complete strangers were things that Medea was willing to do for Jason because “her heart was on fire with passionate love for Jason”(8). Love is what drove Medea to make the choices she did. ... Killing her brother so that her and Jason could make a quick and easy getaway was a choice Medea made because her love for Jason. ... For then my mistress Medea would not have sailed for the towers of the land of Iolcos, her heart on fire with the passionate love for Jason; Nor would she have persuaded the daughters of Pelias to kill their father, and now be living here in Corinth with her husband and children.