The messenger says to Medea, ¡§Are you sane or raving mad?¡¨ And she replies, ¡§I could make suitable reply to that, my friend.¡¨ How might she explain herself? (600-800 words) When the messenger reported to me the horrible scene that had taken place inside Creon and Glauce¡¦s palace, which since that time I had been identified as the murderer of the royal house. In hearing the news, my reaction of accepting the news with …showed first 75 words of 798 total…

…showed last 75 words of 798 total…are mine too, I would bear double the grief when I kill my own child by my own hands. I am raving mad to have the plan of infanticide. But it¡¦s the only way to make Jason suffer the most. I admit that it was rational for me to reveal happiness upon hearing the death of Glauce and Creon; but I was about raving round the bend to lead my own children to death.