... yet again and I am more sympathetic to Jason. Overall I believe that Euripides intended us to not sympathise with Medea all together, but sympathise with her enough, to be shocked in the end when she kills her sons. In the beginning of the play, our opinions of Medea are based on other people's opinions of the situation. Therefor we sympathise with whomever the people sympathise with. We hear the Nurse talking about how wronged Medea is and how horrible Jason has been to her, so we have no sympathy for Jason: " Since she first heard of Jason's wickedness." And we sympathise with Medea : " Poor Medea! ..." When we meet the Tutor he also has sympathy for Medea: " Poor women! Has she not stopped crying yet?" Now the first two characters we meet both have sympathy for her and we have heard that she is crying ...

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