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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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7
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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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20
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Medea on Jason

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The most despicable of men

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21
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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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22
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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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24
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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

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I have no mother, brother, nor any of my kin

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26
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Wrong in marriage

Medea

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But when she’s wronged in marriage,

There is no more murderous spirit

27
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Chorus on Medea revenge

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You are right to take revenge on your husband

28
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Creon on medea exile

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Take your two sons and go, into exile. No delay!

This is my word I am the judge

29
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Creon on why Medea scares him

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You frighten me (…)

I fear you’ll do some irreparable harm (…)

30
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Creon on Medea skills

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You are clever, skilled in many evil arts

31
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Creon on Medea heart

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You sounds harmless, but in your heart I’m terrified you are plotting evil.

32
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Creon on clever

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A passionate woman- or a man, (…) is easier to guard against, than one who’s clever and holds her tongue

33
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Creon to Medea rep x2 of what he is to her

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You are my enemy

34
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Medea begging creon

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I touch your knees I beseech you

35
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Creon on his loves

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After my children, my country is my dearest love

36
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Medea on love

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Oh, what great evil can be for us

37
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Medea on Jason providing for their kids

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Their father no longer chooses to provide for them

38
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medea agony

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“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!”

39
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reveal of medea’s hatred for jason

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“You Shall die an unheroic death,

40
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jason’s understanding of exile as a punishment

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consider yourself lucky that your punishment is merely exile

41
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medea on women’s cleverness

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we may not have the means of to achieve nobility; our cleverness lies in crafting evil

42
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medea to jason being a coward

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you vile coward (…) the worst name I know for your unmanliness

43
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chorus on Jason’s words

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Jason, you put a fine gloss on your words.

But (…) you’ve acted wrongly: you have betrayed your wife

44
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Medea on her ‘weakness’

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let no one think me weak, (…), submissive. I am made of different stuff.

45
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Medea treatment of friends and enemies

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good to my friends, but grievous to my enemies

46
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Medea gift to princess

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I’ll send her gifts, the finest in the world:

a finely woven dress and crown beaten of gold

47
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Jason to Medea after she murdered their children

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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

48
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chorus on disruption

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Sacred rivers flow uphill: Justice and all things are reversed.

49
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jason on medea a foreigner

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No Greek woman Could ever have brought herself to do that.
(..)
A lioness, not human

50
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nurse about medea’s love for jason

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smitten with love

51
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nurse about medea as a wife

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all obedient wife

-conventional role of women

52
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anaphoric rep of medea being pitied by her servants

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poor medea
poor woman
poor fool

53
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medea masculine qualities

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like a stone or a wave in the sea

strength permanence emotional coldness

54
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introduction of princess

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the princess, the daughter of king creon
jason’s new wife
gender roles

55
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medea alienation from society

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alone and stateless… plundered from a barbarian land
emotive language
hyperbolic: plundered
helplessness/ vulnerability

56
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medea as passive victim

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stung by misfortune

57
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medea to women

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we women have the worst lot
first person plural–> medea is a mouthpiece for all oppressed women
negative surperlatives

58
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chorus to medea about her birth

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you are of noble birth

foreshadows elevated status at the end where she literally rises up

59
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one of medea’s son

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the sword snare is closing in

oppression imprisonment emphasized by sibilance

60
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medea on enemies

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do i want my enemies to laugh at me?

no I must go through with it

61
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Medea on killing her children

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I shall kill my chilren

62
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Medea’s monologue

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what am I to do?
contrast of “ hopes” “sweet” “care”
and
“tortured” “pain” “grim”

63
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Jason as calm

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I must, I think, show that I am not a bad speaker

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