The once happy marriages in the plays Othello and Medea are more different than similar. In Othello the marriage was between Othello and Desdemona. In Medea the marriage was between Medea and Jason. They are very different in how they started, what changed and caused the marriage to fail, and how it ended, but there are little similarities between them. At the beginning of the relationship they are completely different because in Medea, Medea fell in love with Jason after being hit by Cupid's arrow. She helped him take the Argonaut from her father and ran away with him. This also meant that he had betrayed everyone he knew and his homeland of Colchis. Medea did many things for Jason to help him in any situation, such as tricking a man's daughters to kill him, saving Jason's father when he was sick, etc. They ended up having two children and a home in Corinth. But in Othello, Othello fell in love with Desdemona as he said in the play, “She loved me because of the dangers I had run, and I loved her because she pitied them.” They had secretly married without his father...