twot quotes

women dehumanised

“dehumanised, reduced to a thing”

women being sold, commodified

“was sold off abroad, my exceptional beauty was a saleable asset for greece!”

andromache son, brutality

“would conceive a son to rule…not a victim to be callously murdered, butchered by the greeks.”

objectification of women

“we are loot, my son and i, soldier’s plunder”

menelaus lust

“Menelaus’s lust turned me into a trophy, an object of desire rather than a person.”

menelaus lack of control

“uncontrollable lust”

menelaus lust for helen

“your beauty destroyed me, destroyed all of greece.”

menelaus pride

“a war fought for the sake of one man’s wounded pride”

gods power

“all powerful” , “omnipotent”, “omniscient”

gods betrayal

“what good were you to us? betrayers!”

gods awareness

“not fools”

helen’s lament

“my song has become a scream”

war is futile

“these greeks…began to die. and for what reason?”

war is bad

“any sensible man must hate war”

agony

“still agony, and greater agony”

hecuba loss and grief

“I’ve lost my home. I’ve lost my children. Everything. No grief can encompass what I feel”

Chorus emphasises the shared grief of the women, universal suffering

“your suffering is like mine”

andromache mass loss

“i’ve lost everything”

women raped

“A whole generation of women raped in their own bedrooms.”

gods impose misery

“the gods have drowned me in an ocean of misery”

gods destructive

“the gods are destroying us all”

gods feelings of troy

“the gods hate troy”

menelaus ill motive

“my real motive was to get my hands on the man who stole my wife”

helen sa

“i was raped not married”

motive for war

“for the sake of one women, and a moment of uncontrollable lust”

people dying for lust

ten thousand men are dead for one women and her hated marriage bed

dignity

“they died fighting for their fatherland”

women reduced to

“reduced us to slavery”

women slavery

“dragged as a slave from my home”

women made as mens slaves

to live in slave huts, to be a slave

casandra madness and possesion

“poor mad girl” “possessed”

helen looks as destructive

“your inviting looks have brought this famous country to complete destruction”

trojan men descriptions

“brave men” , “heroes”

dying with honour

“it is a crown of honour to die nobly, with dignity”

animalistic treatment of women

“oh my poor girl, butchered like an animal”

glory

“kleos”

astynax body

“blood still oozing from the broken bones”

women screams

“the screams and moans of the captured women”

astynax order to die

“you must jump from that terrifying height, fall and break your neck”