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Jason's characteristics as weak
Repetition of “she” “her” in the prologue
Jason and his fatal flaw
“Married into power”
Medea is emotional
“She melts away”
Medea doesn’t change
“she listens the way a rock does”
Change in description of Medea
“she hates her children”
Medea as powerful
“her mind is fierce” “she’s a terror” “fiercer than a bull”
Tutor enters
“intends to drive these children and their mother out of Corinth”
Trouble ahead
“a thunderhead rising” "oh children, accursed, may you die”
Chorus enters
Parode, “melting her life all away”
Role of Gods
“Zeus” “Artemis”
Medea’s past
“Oh father, oh city, I left you in horror – I killed my own brother”
Negative view of Jason
“the betrayer of her bed the bitter bridegroom”
Medea’s speech to women of Corinth
“Women of Corinth, I have stepped outside so you will not condemn me”
Women only
“women of Corinth” “hate a man” “worst of men”
Justice and punishment
“no justice in human eyesight” “no injustice”
Role of women
“If a woman leaves her husband, then she loses her virtuous reputation”
Creon’s high status
“I hereby announce…” “I” “I”
Medea acts submissive
“I’m utterly destroyed. My enemies … attack me”
Use of her intellect
“Yet I’m not all that wise” “those greater than myself”
New connotation of wise
“wise and silent”
True view
“he’s (Creon) such an idiot”
Power of Medea
Comparison to “Hecate”
Medea as the “tragic hero”
“I saved your life”
View of men
“And you – you are the very worst of men”
Jason’s hypocrisy
“justice and civil law” “I acted wisely”
Role of women
“But you’re a woman – and you’re all the same!”
Medea is experiencing something complex
“fortune so painful”
Chorus
Parode
How Aegeus views Medea
“wise mind” “but you are melting”
Structure of the dialogue between Medea and Aegeus
Single lines
Manipulation
“beard”
Medea’s problem
“I have no fatherland, no home, no place to turn”
Chorus’ reaction after Medea articulates her plan of killing her children
No longer support “I ask you not to do this” “Oh no, by your knees, we beg you”
Manipulation
“my husband who’s done so well by me”
Medea is rethinking her decision
“I was only thinking of the children” “would they [live]?”
Poisoned gift
“garland worked in gold” “golden hair”
Link between Jason and Medea
“poor thing”
Medea going home/ others going home
“home”
Climax
Gruesome description “flesh was peeling back like resin”
Medea “above the roof”
Deus ex machina, sent by “Helios” (her grandfather family saved her)
Last connotation of wise
“wise restraint”
Grief from Jason (only towards children)
“they exist no longer” “they exist”
Ending
Going to Athens to start again
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