Medea is responsible for her actions.

1.I agree with your definition of anger because I also believe that anger is a feeling that takes over a person when they are faced with a wrong-doing. 2.I agree with this premise. Anger does cause a variety of reactions from a person. The one who feels victimized might ignore the one who wronged him or act violent towards who wronged him. 3.It is possible to control anger through such practices such as meditation, as the Buddhists believed. However, Medea did not control her anger. She could have but she didn"t want to, it was a feeling that took over her body too quickly. 4.I agree with this statement. A person might get angry when they hope for a positive outcome but get a negative outcome. 5.I agree with this statement. Medea"s anger did come from her having too many hopes for her children. However, it mainly comes from her husband leaving her. This is what causes the anger in her to kill her children. 6.Medea was slighted by her husband and her kids. Her husband left her for another woman. He just left her to take care of their kids by herself. Her kids also slighted her. She had such high expectations for them, and she wanted them to take care of her one day. However, her kids would never take care of her the way she took care of them. So it was not Medea"s fault that she killed her kids. It was Medea"s husband and their kids" fault. 7.Medea obviously did not have the capability to control her anger. Not all adults are capable of this difficult task. Medea should have learned to control her anger, but she didn"t. She has to first recognize her anger to stop it from overpowering her that is what Seneca believed. 8.I agree with this statement. Medea is an adult and normally, adults know the difference between right and wrong. 9.Normal mothers care for their children because they usually have a bond with their children Medea is not a normal mother because she does not care for her children. She should have, but she doesn"t because her kids don"t care for her either. 10.I agree with this statement. Medea did contemplate on killing her children. It is written in the text. 11.Her children and their father were also selfish. They all slighted Medea. Her husband left her. The kids destroyed her hopes and dreams for them. So she killed the kids to hurt the father. 12.Therefore, it is not Medea"s fault. Her kids and her husband are also to blame. I believe that I have contradicted myself many times by agreeing that with my opponent and saying that Medea is not a good mother. However, that still does not make everything her fault. I made it clear that her husband and kids are also to blame. She was a mother and her family was everything she had and that same family betrayed her. There was nothing else she was to do. Yes, she should have controlled the situation better. Maybe if she understood Seneca"s teachings on anger, she would have known that it is an emotion that should completely be eliminated. If she knew about Buddhism, she would have embraced her anger as soon as she recognized it. She was not a good mother and she didn"t control the situation very well. But she had no choice. She felt upset and did an irrational thing. It is not fair to blame everything on her. At least the father should be blamed for half of this. He left his entire family for another woman. A man should not be leaving his family to fend for their own. Medea was alone and she was confused, and extremely hurt. The last thing she wanted to do was stare at her children and remember who gave them to her. She would look at them and remember her deceitful husband. Yes, it is unfair for the children to die in this situation. Maybe they would have grown up and fulfilled Medea"s dreams for them. It is true, currently, they were disappointing Medea but maybe one day they would grow up and understand. But Medea is hopeless and has lost her patience. I am not saying that she doesn"t have any responsibility for her actions, but she should share it with her husband and her kids.