People are ruled by passions every day of life. Everyone would like to be calm and decisive, but sometimes people cannot help to be influenced by their emotions. Euripides’ play, Medea, shows us this passion. Throughout the play, the characters are unmistakably ruled by their emotions. The outcomes of each of them derive from the way they handle and deal with these emotions. They get into the situation that they’re in through passion, and …showed first 75 words of 781 total…

…showed last 75 words of 781 total…at the point of no return. It either turns out for the best, or in the case of Euripides’ Medea, for the worst. The characters let their emotions run their lives to the point where they are eventually going to fall. In order to be in control of one’s self, you must first take control of one’s emotions. If they do not, then they will eventually fall into the life that Medea led.