The Greek playwright Euripides is considered one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens. His opera Medea is one of his most popular and well-known works, which tells the story of Medea, a Greek queen and descendant of the gods, and the story of her love for Jason and his betrayal. Euripides tells his story with the help of two secondary characters, the Nurse, a slave in Jason's house and the Chorus, a group of Corinthian women. It portrays Medea through the accurate but limited perspectives of these two characters. This limitation comes from the social gap between them and Medea; this limitation is less obvious for the Chorus, making him more open-minded than the Nurse. Their social status influences their view of Medea as it makes them focus more on the side of Medea as a wife and woman. Medea very sharply contradicts their opinions and refuses to follow their social norm. These two insightful views, when combined, provide the audience with a much clearer understanding of Medea. At the beginning of the opera, Euripides entrusts the Nurse with the important function of introducing Medea off stage. As the Nurse recounts Medea's journey in her opening speech, she says, "Not even [Medea], / when the daughters of Pelias, at her instance, slew their father" (p. 17), she goes on to say that "while to Jason she is everything/Obedience” (p. 17). He establishes that Medea is much more powerful than she pretends to be and that she has been put in a powerless position edgy approach and focuses more on the fact that Medea is the victim of this situation and that she has suffered a lot of abuse, as she says “But now her world has changed to enmity, and it hurts her/Where… middle of paper. .. your schemes?” (p. 28) The audience here finally gets an idea of ​​what Medea plans to do. She is obviously hurt by Jason's actions, as the Chorus pointed out, but the Chorus and the Nurse represent only a small corner of what Medea is feeling. Euripides portrays Medea through the Chorus and the Nurse completely differently than the way Medea portrays herself to them. , Medea's point of view and that of the Nurse and the Chorus are limited in themselves, but when the two sides meet, they give a much deeper understanding than either of them individually. The social magpies between these two secondary characters and Medea leave similar babbles in their interpretation of Medea compared to how Medea actually is. These words are filled with Medea giving her opinions about herself. The two extremes then overlap to provide the audience with a much deeper understanding of the work.