Thursday, November 17, 2016

Maternal Filicide

In class lately we have been reading the play Medea. In this play, the main character medea goes through a breakup with her husband. She risked everything for her husband and now he has left her. In order to take revenge she plots on killing her husbands new bride, and their two sons. The killing of Medea's own children is called maternal filicide. In particular, "spouse revenge" filicide. This type of filicide is where the mother kills her children in order to get revenge on her spouse. Maternal filicide call also be derived from mental illness. Such as voice in someone's head, or the inability to take care of ones children. Either way medea is contemplating this horrible act. At this point we are not sure what she will do to her children.