... what course of action she might revert to "keep a safe distance...mood is cruel...nature dangerous...her will fierce and intractable". When we first meet Medea, she isn't like anything that the nurse has been describing but is cool, calm and collective. This soon changes as she reveals what she has been contemplating; when she meets her boys she laments as to how they remind her of the grief and suffering that Jason has caused her, "children...death take you, with your father". This makes the reader wonder if she has any plans in store for her sons, but it seems to be a form of curse rather than full-on pledge. Before we hear any more of her plans, she pleads to the chorus to let her enact revenge on her husband, but that she must be sure of their support and silence before she can do anything "if I can find a ...

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