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Childbirth x2

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I’d three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once

In childbirth grief begins

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Medea bull

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Nurse: I’ve seen her eyeing them, like a wild bull

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Medea first line

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Oh misery! How wretched I am! I want to die!

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Medea pride

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She can be wild and hateful in her stubborn pride

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Medea fury

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Nurse: I hear the first danger sign,
Her wailing. It is a cloud she will ignite.
To flame as her fury grows.

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Medea ps

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Passionate soul

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Golden mean x3 nurse

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“In modest ways”
“The middle course is best in name”
“Excess brings no benefit to us”

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Medea :( chorus 1st line

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Unhappy woman

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Echo first line Medea

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Where is the point in living?

Oh, oh I want to end my hateful life

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Chorus on Medea after death wishes

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You’re mad.

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Chorus on godly justice

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Leave it to Zeus to see justice done

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Medea godly justice

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Mighty Themis! Queen Artemis!

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Medea and family lost

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O my father and my country, which I lost, when I foully murdered my brother

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Nurse on Medea rage

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Only some momentous act can stop my mistresses rage

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Nurse Medea lion

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She throws a savage glare

Like a lioness with her cubs.

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Chorus on Medea moan

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I heard a wail, full of grievous moans,

Shouts of shrill and distress

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Chorus on Themis

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Themis, daughter of Zeus, goddess of oaths

All women and referred to by men

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Medea to women of Corinth

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Women of Corinth, I have left the house

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Medea foreigner

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A foreigner must take special care to conform to the state

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Medea on Jason

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The most despicable of men

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Medea on husband

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First we have to buy a husband, at a vast expense

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Divorce Medea

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Divorce is not respectable for women

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Men vs women

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When a man is tired of the company at home,
He can go out and end his discontent. We women
Must have eyes for one man.

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Alone Medea

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I am alone and stateless, dishonoured by my husband: plundered from a barbarian land.

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I have no | Medea
I have no mother, brother, nor any of my kin
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Wrong in marriage | Medea
But when she's wronged in marriage, | There is no more murderous spirit
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Chorus on Medea revenge
You are right to take revenge on your husband
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Creon on medea exile
Take your two sons and go, into exile. No delay! | This is my word I am the judge
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Creon on why Medea scares him
You frighten me (...) | I fear you'll do some irreparable harm (...)
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Creon on Medea skills
You are clever, skilled in many evil arts
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Creon on Medea heart
You sounds harmless, but in your heart I'm terrified you are plotting evil.
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Creon on clever
A passionate woman- or a man, (...) is easier to guard against, than one who's clever and holds her tongue
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Creon to Medea rep x2 of what he is to her
You are my enemy
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Medea begging creon
I touch your knees I beseech you
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Creon on his loves
After my children, my country is my dearest love
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Medea on love
Oh, what great evil can be for us
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Medea on Jason providing for their kids
Their father no longer chooses to provide for them
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medea agony
"Do I not suffer? Am I not wronged? Should I not weep?/ Children, your mother is hated, and you are cursed: Death take you, with your father, and perish his whole house!"
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reveal of medea's hatred for jason
"You Shall die an unheroic death,
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jason's understanding of exile as a punishment
consider yourself lucky that your punishment is merely exile
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medea on women's cleverness
we may not have the means of to achieve nobility; our cleverness lies in crafting evil
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medea to jason being a coward
you vile coward (...) the worst name I know for your unmanliness
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chorus on Jason's words
Jason, you put a fine gloss on your words. | But (...) you've acted wrongly: you have betrayed your wife
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Medea on her 'weakness'
let no one think me weak, (...), submissive. I am made of different stuff.
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Medea treatment of friends and enemies
good to my friends, but grievous to my enemies
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Medea gift to princess
I'll send her gifts, the finest in the world: | a finely woven dress and crown beaten of gold
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Jason to Medea after she murdered their children
Hateful creature! O most detestable of women To the gods and me and all the human race! You could bring yourself to put to the sword The children of your womb. You have taken my sons and destroyed me
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chorus on disruption
Sacred rivers flow uphill: Justice and all things are reversed.
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jason on medea a foreigner
No Greek woman Could ever have brought herself to do that. (..) A lioness, not human
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nurse about medea's love for jason
smitten with love
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nurse about medea as a wife
all obedient wife | -conventional role of women
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anaphoric rep of medea being pitied by her servants
poor medea poor woman poor fool
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medea masculine qualities
like a stone or a wave in the sea | strength permanence emotional coldness
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introduction of princess
the princess, the daughter of king creon jason's new wife gender roles
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medea alienation from society
alone and stateless... plundered from a barbarian land emotive language hyperbolic: plundered helplessness/ vulnerability
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medea as passive victim
stung by misfortune
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medea to women
we women have the worst lot first person plural--> medea is a mouthpiece for all oppressed women negative surperlatives
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chorus to medea about her birth
you are of noble birth | foreshadows elevated status at the end where she literally rises up
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one of medea's son
the sword snare is closing in | oppression imprisonment emphasized by sibilance
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medea on enemies
do i want my enemies to laugh at me? | no I must go through with it
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Medea on killing her children
I shall kill my chilren
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Medea's monologue
what am I to do? contrast of " hopes" "sweet" "care" and "tortured" "pain" "grim"
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Jason as calm
I must, I think, show that I am not a bad speaker

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