Not being erratic or emotionally overacting as a scorned woman would likely do, she ingeniously plans the murders by eliminating them by poison (lines 381-382). She doesn't even really struggle with the decision to kill her children. She said: “It must be like this. No compromise is possible” (Line 803). She's a cold-blooded killer. She poisoned the princess and Creon and was happy to receive the news of their deaths from the messenger (line 1100-1102). She then kills her children (p. 311). Medea had killed before this situation occurred. She killed her own brother, Absyrtus, and threw pieces of his body into the sea in order to slow down those pursuing her and her husband (greekmythology.com, n.d.). She is also said to have boiled a man in the hope of achieving rejuvenation (Damrosch, 2011, p..