Medea Lines - Chorus Member #3

Chorus:

She does not know peace.

Nurse, speak to us.

As I stood by the door I heard her weeping deep in the palace.

Nurse:

After men have eaten well, why do they make music?

Fat and full they’re happy enough.

I heard her sobbing low, weeping deep, crying hard tears against the husband who betrayed her.

She calls on Themis, daughter of Zeus, who bore witness to those promises of old.

Jason swore eternal love. Remember.

She set sail in the dark of night, dared the dangers of the deep, left her home in the East—And came to Greece.

Jason:

Without the female sex!

This world would be a much happier place.

Jason, you are a clever speaker

But, like it or not, I have to say that you have done wrong in abandoning your wife.

Medea:

I will come to Athens as quickly as I can—when I have done what I must do and filled the desires of my heart.

May Hermes, protector of travelers, bring you home in safety. And may you too fill the desires of your heart. We bless a man of such nobility.

Jenna:

Into this net of doom she will fall.

Trapped in the snares of blood she cannot escape.

I pity you, Jason, pity your marriage of pain.

Gianna & Jenna:

Your husband sleeps in a royal bed.

And you will kill your sons.

Gianna & Jenna:

The death of a child.

The death of a child.

Messenger:

One man may be more prosperous than another if luck comes his way.

But happiness does not exist.

It seems that the will of the gods is at work, bringing grief upon grief to Jason. His punishment is just. But we pity the poor princess. Her marriage to Jason was a marriage with Death.

Hannah:

One other woman, in all of human time, slaughtered her own sons.

Men keep tales in their hearts of Ino made mad by the gods, Hera was jealous of Zeus’s lust and made her wander the lonely earth.

Jason:

No, I’ve come to save my sons.

Creon’s family will kill them to avenge their mothge’s unspeakable crime.

Jason, I pity you. Your troubles are just beginning. From what you said I know you know nothing.

Jason:

I gave them life.

I saw them dead.

I curse you into eternity.

Zeus is a god who sees all from on high.

He gives and he takes.

What we expect, he takes.

What we do not, he gives.

Thus this story ends.