Development_of_Drama

Development of Drama Just before Medea kills Jason’s wife and father-in-law, she demonstrates to the audience that she is the epitome of deception and lunacy within the influential, Fifth Episode. Medea truly displays a schizophrenic dialogue that entails a roller coaster of emotions that engage an array from a benevolent mother, to a malevolent, mad man. In lines 1021-1027, Medea tells the tutor to bring her sons to her. She embraces them and compassionately conveys to them that their lives will go on without her. “I shall be left lonely, and you will live without you r mother always.” This seems to be the only lines in this scene that seem to exhibit her sanity. Medea is connecting with the idea of not being able to watch her sons’ grow, get married and develop offspring. Medea’s sanity and emotions begin to turn in lines 1030-1038 when she starts to realize the hollowness of raising her sons. She almost begins to commiserate with herself for wasting her time and effort of motherhood: “How useless all the cares endured: the wearying solicitudes, the shooting agony of giving you your lives.” When Medea tells her sons that their birth medea, lines, sons, evil, tells, emotional, without, wife, through, task, side, shooting, shall, sanity, mother, medea’s, lives, letting, kills, jason’s, herself, go, feels, father-in-law, emotions, complete, children, agony, yourself, wound, within, wearying, watch, wasting, useless, unstable, tutor, turn-around, turn, truly, trip, towards, time, takes, take, steel, starts, stares, spasm, sorrow