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Medea Quotes – Top Quotes From Medea Passion quotes by Medea: nurse sees media’s anger growing “its clear this anger will grow; soon enough her grief like a gathering cloud will be kindled by it and Burt into a storm” Medea cries “oh I’m wretched, pity me for my sufferings! oh if only i could die” Jason asks Medea why she doesn’t give up her anger: “you cant even now abandon the anger that sears your heart” Jason to medea the chorus, medea’s emotions are greater than her love for her children crushing any remorse or mercy she has. “why do you surrender to this anger that crushes your heart, why this lust for blood?” Nurse describes: medea’s passion “savage temperaments of hers” “unforgiving nature” “glaring at them like a bull, as if she wanted to do something awful” “anger of hers won’t die down until someones felt the force of her thunderbolt” Fixated and devoted passion is a curse depicted through the choruses plea to Aphrodite that conjures “insatiable strife” “oh never my lady, may you fire at me… the unerring arrow you have poisoned with desire”- chorus “may she rather show respect for marriages where peace reigns and judge with a shrewd eye the loves of women” “may i know the blessing of a heart that is not passion slave” Medea has to let go of her motherly instincts but they are so deeply rooted into her it becomes a fighting battle of humane nature and such lust for revenge. “Ah stop my heart, do not do this deed! Let them be, poor fool, spare your children! When they are living with us they will bring joy” “I cannot look at your anymore my sorrows overwhelm me” metaphors of medias emotions: a rock or a wave of the sea like a bull a lioness With a nature more savage than a tuscan scylla Cancer spreads Thunderbolt like a bull Jasons emotion: subverted meads on lines into Jason’s “in heavens name let me touch my children soft skin” “ah pity me, i long to clap them, to kiss the dear lips of my children” jasons reason “it seems i must prove myself capable speaker indeed, my last, like a helmsman, i must trim the edges of my sail to run before the tempest of your noisy protestations” jason blames medea for her own exile “your surely behaviour has led you to exile. it is not my fault that you are now without a home. i will do what i can to help you and the boys” his calm manner speaking with casue-effect statements explain logically why she should be banished: “as…., but…. this is why…. none the less…” Jason’s assertion: “i have shown wisdom, and prudence… ad acted as a friend to you and my children” jason employ’s reason over passion in choosing “no womans charms are the cause of this royal match i have made” When medea is enticing jason by falsely giving up her anger he in reply congratulates her on adopting the “superior way of thinking” Medea’s reason: “my passion is master of my reason” medeas decisions appears to be influenced by her emotions of rage and vengeance: “i will kill my own children, no-one shall take them from me” Medea knows her children will not be treated with the respect or care Jason so naively thinks. “i will not leave my children to the mockery of my enemies” once Jason anger has simmered, he will be able to see this distort in full picture and come to a realisation that it was he who was the catalyst for his own children death. “You do not know lamination yet wait until you are old” the chorus approve medea’s seekage for justice and shame jason “it is just you should take revenge upon your husband”-the chorus “you are behaving unjustly” chorus to Jason media’s injustice “all i have done for you yet you betrayed me you unfeeling monster” “gone is the trust placed in oaths” “your lack of principle” chorus- justice “zeus will aid you in seeing just done” “where he should be shoving love he’s proving traitor” “she has felt the sting of injustice?” The chorus see the murder of the princess and the king as justice for medea; “this day it seems heaven has rained many blows justly on the head of jason” Injustice/ betrayal: “where he should be showing love he’s proving traitor”- nurse “for there is no justice in the eyes of men” “jason you set out your arguments skilfully and plausibly” “you have betrayed your wife and are behaving unjustly”- chorus Medea has Been “driven without rights into exile”- the chorus Medeas justice: “so call me a lioness, yes, if you wish to, for i have claws in your heart as you deserve” “the spirit of vengeance for your crimes has Been sent by the gods to punish me” :medea’s emotions are greater than her love for her children crushing any remorse or mercy she has. so she may love her children but the poisonous lust for revenge begins to grind her compassion and love, dimming her maternal bond to her children. At the end Jason says; “the pain is yours to feel as well; you share in this suffering. And Medea replies; “my pain is cancelled now that any mockery of yours is silenced” leaving an ambiguous idea of whether medea truly loved her children or cared for them as much as she alluded to. However medea’s lust for revenge overrides her passion “why do you surrender to this anger that crushes your heart, why this lust for blood?”- the chorus medea’s revenge and stubbornness “wreak havoc” “to suffer mockery of my enemies i will not tolerate”-stuborness “Let no one think me a weak and feeble woman” revenge cause a own betrayal on the maternal bond and a great sacrifice of your won happiness and sanity is revealed in order to break the soul of another accumulates anger and necessity for revenge “to cause you pain”-out of spite “but to kill your very own children, will you have the heart for that lady?” “yes by doing that i shall hurt my husband most” “but know woman would no greater misery” “aslong as he suffers greater misery” “yes in doing this i shall hurt my husband the most” she is willing to suffer such misery in oder to go through with her revenge “I shall endure a life that brings me pain and sorrow” the gods: Symbolic purpose: a force beyond human comprehension -men are not the rulers and must too be punished for their defiance over oaths “what god, what spirt will listen to you, the breaker of oaths, the deceiver of hosts?” “gods accomplish beyond mans hopes” “what men expect does not happen; for the unexpected heaven finds a way” the chorus call upon the gods “look upon that deadly woman before she lays her hands upon her children, slaying her own flesh and blood!, for they are yours… it is a fearful thing that human hands should spill the blood of a god.” womens role: dehumanizination of women “what keeps a a marriage intact more than anything, when a husband can count on complete support from his wife” “she seeks to plea