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 …showed first 75 words of 404 total…

…showed last 75 words of 404 total…Medea: away with this cowardice, these arguments that melt.” She then pushes her boys towards the house, letting the evil take over. Within the passage entailing lines 1020-1060, Medea goes through a back and forth emotional trip, battling her demons. Her evil side rules in the end, as she kills Jason’s wife, father-in-law and her own sons in a murderous rampage. And with these actions; further proving, that Medea is emotionally unstable and evil.