Medea

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With Medea, Euripides represents the unspeakable and unrepresentable of the human heart in its deepest folds and in its darkest and most hidden parts, where instinct and intellect, passion and reason mix and merge without being able to separate them; where logic, having become fallacious in its progress, saves honor because it saves appearances, but to do this it obeys the injunctions of a dark force, where absolute confusion is combined with extreme lucidity. Medea is truly human in the complexity of her character: she is a woman of extraordinary rationality but also of extreme passion and the multiplicity of her gestures is the result of the different and changing relationship of forces between rational needs and emotional instances, which Laura Morante returns with unparalleled intensity. Medea fixes all her existential energy in Jason's love to the point of overwhelming every conscience of good and evil: and kills.