Medea - quotes Flashcards
Do you think I…
Do you think I would have fawned on Creon, except to win some profit by my schemes? […] But he is such a fool that […] he has allowed me to stay this one day, in which three of my enemies I’ll send to their death
It is natural for…
It is natural for womenfolk to feel anger against a husband when he deals in contraband love
You have…
You have destroyed me lady
O cursed children of…
O cursed children of a hateful mother, I want you to die along with your father
[Medea suddenly…
[Medea suddenly appears above the stage in a chariot drawn by dragons visible also to the audience are the corpses of her children]
Of all creatures that…
Of all creatures that have life and reason we women are the most miserable of specimens
In the first place, at…
In the first place, at great expense we must buy a husband, taking master to play the tyrant with our bodies
Share our home with…
Share our home with a husband who finds marriage a yoke he bears with ease, our lives are to be envied. But if not, we’d be better off dead
There should have been…
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
When a man becomes…
When a man becomes dissatisfied with married life, he goes outdoors and finds relief for his frustrations. But we are bound to love one partner and look no further
But wrong a…
But wrong a women in love and nothing on earth has a heart more murderous
