Medea Quotes 2018 - English PDF

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MEDEA%QUOTES:% % Jason “Husband’s criminal behaviour” (pg 51) - Nurse “treats me with contempt” (pg 52) - Nurse recalling Medea’s laments “Death’s not good enough for him… where he should be showing love he’s proving a traitor.” (pg 53) - Nurse “Accursed husband.” (pg 55) - Medea “Wicked husband, traitor to her bed.” (pg 56) - Chorus “How incurable an evil is a surly temper.” (pg 62) - Jason about Medea “you speak your foolish mind and for this exile is to be your reward” (pg 62) - Jason to Medea “Count yourself lucky that banishment alone is your punishment” (pg 62) - Jason to Medea “I have not disowned my family...I am looking to your future, my lady, to prevent you being driven out together with our children…” (pg 62) - Jason to Medea “could never wish you anything but good” (pg 62) - Jason to Medea “Unspeakable wretch” (pg 62) - Medea about Jason “Worse abuse” (pg 62) - Medea about Jason “I must prove myself a capable speaker indeed” (pg 64) - Jason “Betrayed your wife and are behaving unjustly” (pg 65) - Chorus about Jason “This was of your own choosing; do not put the blame on anyone else” (pg 66) - Jason to Medea Medea “Medea is by far the most dynamic character in the play, easily outclassing and outwitting the men whom she manipulates.” (pg 45) - Preface “An ordinary woman, suffering from the same disadvantages as everyday Athenian wives; as a stranger in a foreign land; as a cunning woman, one of exceptional quickness and intelligence; as a barbarian witch, skilled in potions and poisons; and as an avenging daemonic figure.” (pg 46) - Preface “Poor lady” (pg 51) - Nurse “remained where she lies, all thought of food dismissed, surrendering herself to anguish and melting each passing hour with tears, not raising an eye or turning her face from the ground” (pg 51) - Nurse “a rock or wave of the sea would pay more attention to the counsel of friends than she does” (pg 51) - Nurse “..turn her white neck away to speak bitter words to herself” (pg 52) - Nurse “hates her children and takes no pleasure in seeing them” (pg 52) - Nurse “may hatch some unheard-of scheme” (pg 52) - Nurse “no ordinary woman; no one making an enemy of her will win an easy victory..” (pg 52) - Nurse “glaring at [the children] like a bull, as if she wanted to do something awful” (pg 53) - Nurse “anger of hers won’t die down until someone’s felt the force of her thunderbolt” (pg 53) - Nurse “Wretched” (pg 53) - Medea “Troubled heart and an angry one too” (pg 53) - Nurse “Watch out for that savage temperament of hers, that stubborn will and unforgiving nature!” (pg 53) - Nurse “anger of hers will grow; soon enough her grief like a gathering cloud will be kindled by it and burst in storm” (pg 53) - Nurse “That proud, impassioned soul, so ungovernable now.” (pg 53) - Nurse “Wretched sufferings, they invite a world’s tears!” (pg 54) - Medea “Terrible fear in my heart that you’ll come to some harm!” (pg 54) - Nurse to Medea “frightening natures, those of royal blood” (pg 54) - Nurse “They’re seldom overruled and generally have their way, they do not easily forget a grudge.” (pg 54) - Nurse “Pines her life away in her bedchamber, refusing to let a single friend bring any comfort to her heart.” (pg 54) - Nurse “The mistress will not lightly abandon her rage.” (pg 55) - Nurse “In the hope that she might give up this anger that weighs on her heart and alter her mood.” (pg 55) - Chorus “The sound of heartfelt lamentation, as she bewails her piteous sorrows.” (pg 56) - Chorus “Would rather face the enemy three times over than bear a child once” (pg 57) - Medea “Abandoned, homeless” (pg 57) - Medea “cruel husband’s plaything, the plunder he brought back from a foreign land, with no mother to turn to, no brother or kinsman to rescue me from this sea of troubles…” (pg 57) - Medea “sullen looks and angry feelings against your husband” (pg 57) - Creon “Sinking to her knees and seizing Creon by the hand” (pg 59) - the start of her manipulation “Show them some pity” (pg 59) - Medea changes Creon’s thoughts “You are also a father of children; my little ones should stir some kind thoughts in you” (pg 59) - Medea to Creon “Aegeus, no woman has a husband as vile as mine!” (pg 69) - Medea to Aegeus “but now I stand for nothing” (pg 69) - Medea to Aegeus “Then may the gods fulfil your desire for children and prosperity accompany you to the grave” (pg 69) - Medea to Aegeus; manipulating Aegeus to offer her a place of refuge, to feel sympathy for her “I will put a stop to your childlessness and give you the power to father sons” (pg 70) - Medea to Aegeus “I shall use honeyed words, saying that this royal marriage he has betrayed me to make is for the best..” (pg 71) - Medea’s thoughts revealed; thoughts of manipulating Jason “Jason, I ask your forgiveness for what I said earlier” (pg 73) - Medea

“I ask your favour and admit to a lack of sense earlier; I have come to a better understanding of my situation” (pg 74) - Medea “turned into a murderous Fury!” (pg 83) - Chorus “This abomination, this lioness who takes the lives of children.” (pg 87) - Jason about Medea Passion “Her heart transfixed by desire for Jason”... “who seeks to please her husband in all she does”. (pg 51) - Nurse “Your husband’s desire for you is gone and the loss vexes you.” (pg 58) - Creon “You would not back down from your stupid attitude, your constant abuse of the royals.” (pg 62) - Jason “My tongue can utter no worse abuse against your spinelessness.” (pg 62) - Medea “Terrible is the anger and almost beyond cure, when strife severs those whom love once joined.” (pg 64) - Chorus “The blessing of a heart that is not passion’s slave; no fairer gift can the gods bestow.” (pg 67) - Chorus “I will triumph gloriously over my enemies” (pg 71) - Medea “So that I may kill the king’s daughter by means of trickery.” (pg 71) - Medea “I will wreak havoc on all of Jason’s house and then quit this land.” (pg 71) - Medea “To suffer the mockery of my enemies is something I will not tolerate.” (pg 72) - Medea “Let no one think me a weak and feeble woman, or one to let things pass.” (pg 72) - Medea “A generous friend but an enemy to be feared. It is people like that who achieve true fame in life.” (pg 72) - Medea “Anything you may say now is wasted” (pg 72) - Medea to Chorus; Medea does not listen to the Chorus’ words even when knowing how killing her children is the greatest act of all - the one that leads her to greater misery → emotions too strong → dismissing all thoughts/reasons “What a perverse creature I am! Why do I madly resent those who have my interests at heart?” (pg 73) - Medea “I realised the full extent of my folly and the futility of my anger.” (pg 73) - Medea “Do I want to become a laughing-stock by letting my enemies off scot-free?” (pg 78) - Medea “My sorrows overwhelm me.” (pg 78) - Medea “I am well aware how terrible a crime I am about to commit, but my passion is master of my reason, passion that causes the greatest suffering in the world” (pg 78) - Medea “You make me twice as happy if they died in agony!” (pg 80) - Medea “I will kill the children and then quit this land” (pg 82) - Medea “No time now for cowardice or thinking of your children, how much you love them, how you brought them into the world” (pg 82) - Medea “I am a woman born to sorrow!” (pg 82) - Medea “Unhappy woman, why do you surrender to this anger that crushes your heart, why this lust for blood?” (pg 83) - Chorus Reason “The clarity with which Medea sees the full horror of her revenge, yet proceeds to execute it; though she speaks of her anger and her fury, these emotions are combined with a terrible lucidity and resolution.” (pg 47) - Preface “You had the opportunity to have this country and this house as your home by submitting graciously to the will of those in power.” (pg 62) - Jason to Medea “only one person, human or divine, lent success to my voyage, and that was the Cyprian” (pg 64) - Jason arguing that it was not Medea who had assisted him in his journey; denying the truth, fails to take accountability for his serious actions within the patriarchal society → his obliviousness to the lack of honour that his actions has “Where you did give assistance it was of some benefit.” (pg 64) - Jason; he lays out his defence for his actions and counteracts Medea’s reasoning for saving his life “In fact in saving me you gained more than you gave.” (pg 64) - Jason to Medea “Shown wisdom… and prudence, and further that I have acted like a true friend to you and to my children.” (pg 64) - Jason “What happier stroke of luck could I have met than this.” (pg 64) - Jason “It was not because I had lost my desire for you..and fallen hopelessly in love with a new bride..” (pg 65) - Jason “No, my motives were different” (pg 65) - Jason “I wanted us to live comfortably and not go without anything…” (pg 65) - Jason “Wanted to raise my sons in a manner worthy of my house.” (pg 65) - Jason “To ensure my prosperity.” (pg 65) - Jason; views marriage as some sort of transaction in which he does not marry out of lust but instead for profit “Even you would grant this, if you were not so embittered by jealousy.” (pg 65) - Jason “If you were a man of honour, you should have won my consent to this new marriage instead of keeping it a secret from your own family.” (pg 65) - Medea “You uttered unholy curses against the royal house.” (pg 66) - Jason “Give up this anger and you will find things more to your advantage.” (pg 66) - Jason “Your heart has changed for the better and now at last you have come to see the superior way of thinking. This is how a sensible woman should behave.” (pg 74) - Jason “Did I actually let myself by influenced by such cowardly thoughts?” (pg 78) - Medea Role of Women “Euripides is extraordinarily acute and often sympathetic in his representation of women, their situation and their psychology.” (pg 45) - Preface

“In mythical drama, the weaker sex assert their power and often gain the upper hand over their supposed masters.” (pg 47) Preface “..what keeps a marriage intact more than anything..” (pg 51) - Nurse “When a husband can count on complete support from his wife.” (pg 51) - Nurse “Take no pleasure, woman, in the sorrows of the house, as I have chosen to give it my loyal friendship” (pg 54) - Chorus to Medea & Nurse “Ladies of Corinth” (pg 56) - Medea “Of all creatures that have life and reason we women are the most miserable of specimens!” (pg 56) - Medea “at great expense we must buy a husband, taking a master to play the tyrant with our bodies” (pg 56) - Medea “For divorce brings disgrace on a woman and in the interval she cannot refuse her husband” (pg 56) - Medea “When a man becomes dissatisfied with marriage life, he goes outdoors and finds relief for his frustrations” (pg 57) - Medea “bound to love one partner and look no further” (pg 57) - Medea “I would rather face the enemy three times over than bear a child once.” (pg 57) - Medea “Women are timid creatures for the most part, cowards when it comes to fighting.” (pg 57) - Medea “wrong a women in love and nothing on earth has a heart more murderous” (pg 57) - Medea “Sorceress and a woman who is no stranger to dark knowledge” (pg 58) - Creon “A woman who is hot-tempered, and likewise a man, is easier to guard against than one who is clever and controls her tongue.” (pg 59) - Creon “We are women, quite helpless in doing good but surpassing any master craftsman in working evil.” (pg 61) - Medea “Recompense is coming for the female sex.” (pg 61) - Chorus “No more shall we women endure the burden of ill-repute” (pg 61) - Chorus “You take all that is good and beautiful in life and turn it into grounds for bitter hatred.” (pg 65) - Jason about women “There should have been some other means for mankind to reproduce itself, without the need of a female sex; this would rid the world of all its troubles” (pg 65) - Jason “But we are what nature made us, I will not say creatures of wickedness, but women.” (pg 73) - Medea “It is natural of womenfolk to feel anger against a husband when he deals in contraband love.” (pg 74) - Jason “A woman is a soft creature, made for weeping.” (pg 74) - Medea Revenge (Vengeance) “A play of dark revenge and child-slaughter, is one of the most powerful and horrific of all Greek tragedies.” (pg 45) - Preface “The tragic effect is further heightened by her own hesitation and self-torture as she prepares herself for the deed.” (pg 46) Preface “There is no doubt that the revenge is just, but the way in which it is exacted, and the viciousness of the avenger, must shock and disturb the spectator.” (pg 47) - Preface “devise some ways and means of making my husband pay for this suffering of mine: your silence” (pg 57) - Medea wanting the Chorus’ promise to her “In case you do some irreparable harm to my daughter.” (pg 58) - Creon “I have a terrible misgiving that in your heart you are hatching some evil plan.” (pg 58) - Creon “Do you imagine I would have stooped to flattery of this man without having some profit, some scheme in mind?” (pg 60) Medea “make corpses of three of my enemies, father, daughter and husband!” (pg 60) - Medea “no shortage of deadly routes to follow that will lead to their deaths” (pg 60) - Medea “I’ll use cunning and secrecy to carry out this bloody deed.” (pg 61) - Medea “But to kill your very own children - will you have the heart for that, lady?” (pg 72) - Chorus to Medea “No more have I hopes that the children will live, no more; already they are going to embrace a bloody death” (pg 76) - Chorus “Will receive...the circlet of gold that will bind her to destruction” (pg 76) - Chorus “The golden coronet resting on her head released a wondrous stream of devouring fire...the fine dress that she wore...began to consumed the wretched girl’s white flesh.” (pg 81) - Messenger “He tried to raise his aged frame but he stuck to her fine dress, as ivy clings to laurel branches” (pg 81-82) - Messenger “Together they lie in death, old man and young daughter” (pg 82) - Messenger “Look upon that deadly woman before she lays bloody hands upon her children, slaying her own flesh and blood” (pg 82) Chorus “Should they seek to avenge their mother’s impious act of murder.” (pg 84) - Jason

Justice “Triumphant and malevolent, she shows no sign of grief or regret.” (pg 47) - Preface about Medea “felt the sting of injustice” (pg 53) - Nurse referring to Medea “Zeus will aid you in seeing justice done” (pg 55) - Chorus “See him and his bride in utter ruin, house and all, for the wrongs they dare to inflict on me who never did them harm!” (pg 55) Medea “Calls upon Zeus, the appointed steward of mortal oaths.” (pg 55) - Nurse “Calls upon the gods to witness how unjustly she is treated” (pg 56) - Chorus “For there is no justice in the eyes of men” (pg 56) - Medea

“Not in the same position...you have your city here and the homes where your fathers have lived; you enjoy life’s pleasures and the companionship of those you love” (pg 57) - Medea’s speech to the Chorus where she compares her miserable life to the Chorus’ happy life, encourages the Chorus to be sympathetic of her views too “It is just that you should take revenge upon your husband.” (pg 57) - Chorus “Not one of them will live to boast of vexing my heart.” (pg 61) - Medea “Pain and sorrow I will give them for this marriage, pain for this union and this exile they have forced on me!” (pg 61) - Medea “My position is weak, while they have all the resources a royal house enjoys.” (pg 70) - Medea “To escape the charge of murdering my beloved children, after daring to do a deed that is abominable.” (pg 71) - Medea “From a heart that wishes you well yet would not break mankind’s laws, do not do this thing.” (pg 72) Chorus “I am now to tread a road of bitter pain.” (pg 78) - Medea “This day it seems heaven has rained many blows justly on the head of Jason.” (pg 82) - Chorus “Murderers are paid in just measure by the sorrows that heaven wills upon their houses.” (pg 83) - Chorus “The spirit of vengeance for your crimes has been sent by the gods to punish me.” (pg 85) - Jason “I have my claws in your heart as you deserve.” (pg 85) - Medea Betrayal “Now everything has turned to hatred and where love was once deepest a cancer spreads.” (pg 51) - Nurse “betrayed my lady for a princess’ bed” (pg 51) - Nurse “worships a new bride, do not let this fault in him vex you” (pg 54-55) - Chorus to Medea “do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life” (pg 55) - Nurse “This unexpected blow of circumstance has wrecked my confidence.” (pg 56) - Medea “the man who was the world to me has proved to be the foulest of traitors, my own husband!” (pg 56) - Medea “Driven without rights into exile.” (pg 61) - Chorus “You have no father’s home, unhappy lady, to offer haven from your troubles, and another queen has triumphed over your bed and holds sway in your home.” (pg 62) - Chorus “This creature’s death I caused and so lifted up the torch that lit your way out of peril” (pg 63) - Medea to Jason “Betrayed my own father, my own family to come here with you to Iolcus under Pelion, showing more eagerness than sense” (pg 63) - Medea to Jason “Pelias, too, I killed by the most painful of deaths..bringing destruction on his entire house” (pg 63) - Medea to Jason “All this I have done for you and yet you have betrayed me, you unfeeling monster.” (pg 63) - Medea “Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths.” (pg 63) - Medea “My own family at home now have cause to hate me, while to please you, I have become hated by the very people who should have had kindness for me, not harm.” (pg 63) - Medea “Marriage to a royal bride - that’s the prize he set his heart on.” (pg 69) - Medea “It is by doing this that I shall hurt my husband the most” (pg 72) - Medea “I grieve now for your anguish, pitiful mother of sons, who will shed your children’s blood to avenge your bridal bed, forsaken lawlessly by your husband.” (pg 76) - Chorus!

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