Quotes

Question 1

Where love was one deepest a cancer spreads- Nurse

Answer 1

Extremes of passion

Question 2

For moderation in the first place sounds more attractive on the tongue and in practice is by far the best for a man. Excess, though, means no profit for man and pays him back with greater ruin, whenever a house earns heaven’s anger

Answer 2

Moderation- Nurse

Question 3

Divorce brings disgrace on a woman- Medea

Answer 3

Role of women

Question 4

We women are the most miserable to specimens! -Medea

Answer 4

Role of women

Question 5

We are bound to love one partner and look no further- Medea

Answer 5

Role of women

Question 6

But wrong a woman in love and nothing on earth has a heart more murderous- Medea

Answer 6

Role of women

Question 7

Abandoned, homeless, I am a cruel husband’s plaything, the plunder he brought back from a foreign land-Medea

Answer 7

Role of women

Question 8

You are a sorceress and a woman who is no stranger to dark knowledge- Creon

Answer 8

Medea is to be feared

Question 9

Do you imagine that I would ever have stooped to flattery of this man without having some profit, some scheme in mind?

Answer 9

Manipulation/ cunning

Question 10

Recompense is coming for the female sex- chorus

Answer 10

Women

Question 11

I am looking to your future, my lady, to prevent your being driven out together with our children - Jason

Answer 11

Reason- Jason

Question 12

But I could never wish you anything but good. -Jason

Answer 12

Reason

Question 13

Passion is master of my reason, passion that causes the greatest suffering in the world- Medea

Answer 13

Passion