Medea

Question 1

“I tell you from a heart that wishes you well yet would not break mankind’s laws, do not do this”

Answer 1

Chorus to M as she reveals her plan to murder the children

Question 2

“We beg you not to murder your children”

Answer 2

Chorus to M as she reveals her plan to murder the children

Question 3

“boldness”

Answer 3

Medea’s boldness allows her to commit act

Question 4

“[Medea] seeks to please her husband in all she does”

Answer 4

Nurse during prologue

Question 5

“dishonoured”

Answer 5

Nurse during prologue

Question 6

“raise my sons in a manner worthy of my house”

Answer 6

Jason justifying to Medea why he abandoned her

Question 7

“ensure my prosperity”

Answer 7

Jason justifying to Medea why he abandoned her

Question 8

“my advantage”

Answer 8

Jason justifying to Medea why he abandoned her

Question 9

“of all creature that have life and reason, we women aee the most miserable specimens”, “must buy a husband” + “master to play tyrant with our bodies”

Answer 9

Medea to women of Corinth

Question 10

“good man or bad”

Answer 10

Medea to women of Corinth

Question 11

“disgrace”

Answer 11

Medea to women of Corinth

Question 12

“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”

Answer 12

Jason being misogynistic

Question 13

“like a seasoned helmsman, I must trim my sails to run before the temptest of your noisy protestations”

Answer 13

Jason being misogynistic

Question 14

“wisdom”

Answer 14

Jason thinks he is more superior than M

Question 15

“my passion is the master of my reason”

Answer 15

M’s reason

Question 16

“have fallen victim”

Answer 16

To Jasons unquenchable desperation of oikos

Question 17

“no justice in the eyes of men”

Answer 17

M to chorus

Question 18

“offends his fellows by his lack of finer feelings”

Answer 18

M to chorus

Question 19

“say nothing if truely you are a loyal servant and a woman”

Answer 19

M to nurse, E = implies struggle is universal

Question 20

“You [women] think your happiness is complete when love smiles down on you but, should some misfortune mar that love, you take all that is good in life and turn it into ground for bitter hatred”

Answer 20

Jason to M (being misogynistic)

Question 21

“superior way of thinking”

Answer 21

when M agrees with J’s plan

Question 22

“sensible women should behave”

Answer 22

when M agrees with J’s plan

Question 23

“If she’s a women like the rest”

Answer 23

J to M about Glauce

Question 24

“she will prefer me to wealth”

Answer 24

J being hubristic

Question 25

“Medea suddenly appears above the stage in a chariot drawn by dragons. Visible to the audience are the corpses of children”

Answer 25

Stage directions

Question 26

“you have destroyed me lady”

Answer 26

J to M when holding the corpses of his children above the stage (on a chariot)

Question 27

“you have robbed me of life”

Answer 27

J to M when holding the corpses of his children above the stage (on a chariot)

Question 28

“In heavens name, let me touch my children’s soft skin”

Answer 28

J to M when holding the corpses of his children above the stage (on a chariot)

Question 29

“uphill flows the water of sacred rivers; nature and all things are overturned”

Answer 29

Chorus after J breaks oath

Question 30

“the fate awaiting mortals who offend against the gods”

Answer 30

Aegeus to M

Question 31

“Aegeus, you have a noble heart

Answer 31

M to A

Question 32

“my children win more love from me than my country”

Answer 32

Creon to M

Question 33

“Is he so different from the rest of mankind?”

Answer 33

Tutor about J

Question 34

“No-one loves his neighbour more than himself”

Answer 34

Tutor about J

Question 35

“what men expect does not happen; for the unexpected heaven finds a way”

Answer 35

Exodus speech / chorus’ final message to the audience