Medea #3

In both Medea and Oedipus the catharsis changes but it is there at the beginning of the play for both. At the beginning of Medea pity and fear is felt for the nurse and all those who face the wrath of Medea. By the end of the play pity and fear is felt for Medea and Jason both. Each of them has lost all that have and both of them kind of brought upon themselves. In Oedipus we feel pity and fear for the people of Thebes who are suffering from a plight. By the end of the play this catharsis is narrowed down to Oedipus, who realizes the truth of the conflict, which leads him to gouge his eyes out and his wife/mother to kill herself.