Show by what stages Medea's plans for revenge unfold

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Show by what stages Medea’s plans for revenge unfold From the beginning of the play, we can see altering plans that Medea has for revenge, from the very beginning her plans are ever changing and it seems she has many ways of putting her feelings of hatred for Jason across. Whilst reading the play, we do not know whether or not they are meaningless, we do not know as to whether she wishes to just cast a curse on them or if she wants to have the joy of killing Jason, his wife and Creon. Her very first objectives are not exactly made from her but are deciphered from her nurse who makes an assumption after hearing her from her room. Once the nurse had made this assumption, it will make us see what kind of person Medea is, due to the fact that the nurse knows her best, and would know what she would get up to. However baring this in mind we soon
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realise that the nurse is actually wrong because when we first see Medea she is nothing like the nurse had implied. She comes on as someone who isn’t really greatly affected by her crisis, and is happy to carry on with things normally. But again there is another twist in the play because we hear her say “Death take you, with your father. And perish his whole house!” this however at the moment seems to be an empty threat rather than a meaningful threat. After this we are brought upon a speech made by Medea in order to win the ...

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