... its effect. The audience is witness to a hideous passion and cannot be certain whether Euripides approves of it or condemns it. Many themes shine through in the play Medea including pride, exile and the outsider and betrayal and manipulation and the use of different literary devices including imagery and foreshadowing make it ... . She appears as very unsympathetic of the destruction she leaves behind, and of her innocent brother who was a novelty in her game. In 'Medea', she has the nerve to say "with no mother to turn to, no brother or kinsman to rescue me from this sea of trouble...

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