Medea Scholarly Quotes

Question 1

E.Hall (On the way its performed)

Answer 1

(two persons on stage)
‘The simplicity serves to throw the dominating figure of medea into grander relief, by stressing that in her serial bipolar encounters with men’

Question 2

E.Hall (audience reaction)

Answer 2

The play must have been ethically shocking

Question 3

E.Hall (medea herself)

Answer 3

A wronged and sympathetic wife or an agent of divine justice

Question 4

E.Hall (Medea to the Athenians)

Answer 4

The vengeful, competitive, and sexually honest Medea, escaping unpunished, was any Athenian husband’s worst nightmare realised.

Question 5

E.Hall (Euripides’ take)

Answer 5

The shocking effect of the actual infanticide was exacerbated because Euripides almost certainly invented it

Question 6

E.Hall (Medea and infanticide)

Answer 6

Perform in cold blood

• the others had done it in the excuse of temporary madness

Question 7

E.Hall (Medeas alienness)

Answer 7

the question of Medea’s acceptability as an alien to her new city state

Question 8

E.Hall (Medea’s feminity)

Answer 8

she fundamentally repudiates the gender role assigned to her