I’m going to keep working on these, but this is what I have so far… List of Actions
- Nurse grieves for Medea’s fate.
- Nurse foresees/ worries about Medea’s reaction to Jason’s wedding.
- Tutor warns Nurse that Creon is going to exile Medea.
- Nurse sends children inside to hide from Medea.
- Nurse warns that overstepping your bounds/ having too much will get you punished by the gods.
- Chorus attempt to sooth Medea’s grief.
- Medea prays to/ demands that the gods revenge her.
- Medea petitions the Chorus not to reveal her plan, Chorus agrees.
- Creon exile’s Medea and her children
- Medea tricks Creon into letting her and the children stay one more day.
- Medea plans/ convinces herself to poison Creon’s daughter and Jason.
- Chorus supports Medea and her decision.
- Jason offers Medea financial support while she and the children are exiled.
- Medea accuses Jason of being an unfaithful liar.
- Jason defends himself against Medea’s accusations.
- Chorus curses Jason that he will die unloved and friendless.
- Aegeus pledges to house Medea and children during exile.
- Medea formulates/ solidifies her plan to kill Creon’s daughter and her children.
- Medea sends the Nurse to bring Jason.
- Chorus disagrees with Medea/ reveals drawbacks to plan.
- Medea tricks Jason into letting the children stay
- Medea sends the children to Creon’s daughter with the poison presents.
- Chorus accuses everyone (Jason, Creon’s daughter, Medea) of being wrong.
- Medea debates, and then strengthens her resolve to kill her children.
- Messenger enters and warns Medea to flee (crisis).
- Chorus begs Helios (sun-god) to stop Medea from killing her children (his great-grandchildren).
- Medea kills her sons (climax).
- Jason discovers his dead sons (recognition).
- Jason mourns his sons/wants to bury them (reversal).
- Medea flies away in the chariot with the bodies of her dead children.
- Jason exits to bury Creon and his daughter (new stasis).