Medea Cards Flashcards
Medea as she prepares to kill her children re: ladies of Corinth
“I am well aware how terrible a crime i am about to commit, but my passion is master of my reason”
The messanger describes Creon’s death
“He tore the withered flesh from his own bones”
Medea requesting Ladies silence + their response
“And so there is one small kindness i ask of you, if i devise some way of making my husband pay for this suffering of mine: your silence”- Medea
“I will do as you ask Medea; it is just that you should take revenge upon your husband” -Chorus
Medea speaking of her sacrifices to Jason
“All this I have done for you and yet you have betrayed me, you u feeling monster”
Medea telling Ageus of Jason’s coldness
“he says he objects, but he is prepared to tolerate it”
Medea lamenting to the women of Corinth
“Of all creatures that have life and reason we women are the most miserable of specimens! In the first place, at great expense we must buy a husband taking a master to play tyrant with our bodies (this is an injustice that crowns the first one)”
Nurse re: medea as a wife
“[Medea] seeks to please her husband in all she does. This is what keeps a marriage intact more than anything, when a husband can count on complete support from his wife”
Exodus speech BP3
“ what men expect to happen, for the unexpected heaven finds a way”
Exodus speech BP3
“ what men expect to happen, for the unexpected heaven finds a way”
Chorus pleads with medea not to commit fillicide
“I tell you from a heart that wishes you well, yet would not break mankind’s laws, do not do this thing”
“No, at your feet, by every means, in every way, we beg you not to murder your children”
Chorus at the end of the play BP3
“Uphill flows the water of sacred rivers; nature and all things are overturned”
Nurse re: Medea’s rising anger
“It’s clear this anger will grow; soon enough her grief like a gathering cloud will be kindled by it and burst into storm”
Jason begging Medea to touch his children
“In heavens name, let me touch my children’s soft skin”
Jason to medea during agon: helmsman
“It seems I must prove myself a capable speaker indeed, my lady, and, like a seasoned helmsman, I must trim the edges of my sail to run before the tempest of your noisy protestations”
Jason to medea during agon: mankind reproduce
“There should be some other means for mankind to reproduce itself, without the need for the female sex; this would rid the world of all its troubles”
