Thus , both Medea ' s and Sethe 's acts - the murdering of their children , although springing from contextually different reasons , can be explained at a different level , as a gesture that is the result of an external , social threat on their own selves . In the case of Medea , the threat is Jason 's remarriage which humiliates her as a woman , and also impairs her social status through the impending exile . For Sethe , the social threat is that of slavery and through...











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