"Wept before that tall dog" (17), she does this to show how they are cold-blooded monsters. By using this personification she purposely tries to show that she is Creon and Jason's victim. "-They are his cubs- (39). Medea, gazing with terror explains how her children are also apart of Jason. She refers to her children as being Jason's cubs because they have his blood. "Never pray for death He strikes from the clear sky like a hawk." (12) In this simile death is being compared to a hawk because death may come to you very quickly and silently. "I shall not die perhaps like a pigeon dies." (18) In this simile Medea is saying that she will not allow herself to give up, nor be weakened by anyone. Medea makes reference to her brother by calling him a serpent, " whether I poisoned the great serpent- (20) She acknowledges that her brother was only out to kill. She considered her brother to be some kind of a monster. Another reference to the animal imagery used in Medea is when Creon says "You can speak sweetly enough, you can make honey in your mouth like a brown bee when it serves your turn." (16) By using a simile to compare Medea to a brown bee who makes honey, Creon is calling Medea a liar to her face. .
As the play progresses, strange events begin to take place with many of the animals in the play, Medea. They foreshadowed many disastrous events that would take place later on in the play. For instance, Jason told the Nurse about a strange incident that occurred, "a young mare broke from the chariot and tore with her teeth a stallion." (30) The young mare is Medea because she is angry for what Jason had done to her. Jason is the stallion who was being pulled apart by Medea's teeth because he betrayed, wounded her emotionally, and used her for his own prosperity. Another strange event occurred, "Yesterday evening a slave came up to the harbor-gate, carrying a basket of new caught fish; one of the fish took fire and burned in the wet basket with high flame- One of the Greek women witnessed this.
