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'''As the play continues, things seem less tragic to Medea.'''

'''As the play continues, things seem less tragic to Medea.'''

A messenger arrives later, to inform her of what happened to Creon and his daughter.  As Creon's daughter applied the robe and strutted about, she was struck ill, and her father perished in reaching to save her.  The messenger states:{{cquote|In a moment she turned pale, reeled backwards, trembling in every limb, and sinks upon a seat scarce soon enough to save herself from falling to the ground.  An aged dame, one of her company, thinking belike it was a fit from Pan or some other god sent, raised a cry of prayer, till from her mouth she saw the foam-flakes issue, her eyeballs rolling in their sockets, and all the blood her face desert; then she did raise a loud scream far from her husband's cry. ... She with one awful shriek awoke, poor sufferer, from her speechless trance, and opened her closed eyes, for against her a twofold anguish was warring.  The chaplet of gold about her head was sending forth a wondrous stream of ravening fame, while the fine raiment, thy children's gift, was preying on the hapless maiden's fair white flesh.}}Medea then sends away the messenger, and knowing Jason to be alive, steels her heart in order to slay her children.  She does this with a cruel vengeance, trapping them inside the house and leaving them butchered.

A messenger arrives later, to inform her of what happened to Creon and his daughter.  As Creon's daughter applied the robe and strutted about, she was struck ill, and her father perished in reaching to save her.  The messenger states:{{cquote|In a moment she turned pale, reeled backwards, trembling in every limb, and sinks upon a seat scarce soon enough to save herself from falling to the ground.  An aged dame, one of her company, thinking belike it was a fit from Pan or some other god sent, raised a cry of prayer, till from her mouth she saw the foam-flakes issue, her eyeballs rolling in their sockets, and all the blood her face desert; then she did raise a loud scream far from her husband's cry. ... She with one awful shriek awoke, poor sufferer, from her speechless trance, and opened her closed eyes, for against her a twofold anguish was warring.  The chaplet of gold about her head was sending forth a wondrous stream of ravening fame, while the fine raiment, thy children's gift, was preying on the hapless maiden's fair white flesh.}}Medea then sends away the messenger, and knowing Jason to be alive, steels her heart in order to slay her children.  She does this with a cruel [[vengeance]], trapping them inside the house and leaving them butchered.

Jason returns home, and the chorus informs him that his children, like his bride and father-in-law, are dead.  He finds Medea on a chariot pulled by dragons, and calls her a lioness crueler than Scylla.  She admits to her copious cruelty in trying to vex him.  She casts him away to bury Creon and his daughter and plans to take her own children to the sacred fields of Hera, where they will not be disturbed.

Jason returns home, and the chorus informs him that his children, like his bride and father-in-law, are dead.  He finds Medea on a chariot pulled by dragons, and calls her a lioness crueler than Scylla.  She admits to her copious cruelty in trying to vex him.  She casts him away to bury Creon and his daughter and plans to take her own children to the sacred fields of Hera, where they will not be disturbed.