IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS FROM MEDEA NURSE: "...while to Jason she is all obedience..." "She is a frightening woman.

" TUTOR: "Has she not stopped crying yet?" NURSE: "To have learned to live on the common level is better. No grand life for me..." CHORUS: "If your husband is won to a new love, the thing is common, why let it anger you?" MEDEA: "Surely of all creatures....(as far as)...to turn to in this extremity" (pp.24-25). CREON: "I fear you. Why wrap up the truth?" MEDEA: "Because I am clever, they are jealous". MEDEA: "I'm in no position, a woman, to wrong a king". MEDEA: "Oh, what an evil power love has in people's lives". MEDEA: "Do you think I would ever have fawned so on this man except to gain my purpose? Oh what a fool". MEDEA: "...no one of them shall hurt me and not suffer for it". MEDEA: "We were born women, useless for honest purposes but in all kinds of evil skilled practitioners". JASON: "I have often noticed, this is not the first time, what fatal results follow from ungoverned rage". JASON: "However, I will not desert a friend". JASON: "I have to show myself a clever speaker..." JASON: "...here you have known justice...you are famous". JASON: "You don't need more children, do you?" MEDEA: "You're an ageing man and an Asiatic wife was no longer respectable". AEGEUS: "And does Jason accept this? How disgraceful!"

MEDEA: "Yes, I can endure guilt however horrible, the laughter of my enemies I will not endure". MEDEA: "I am of a different kind, dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends". CHORUS: "...you the child-killer whose presence is pollution". PAGE TWO JASON: "Cheer up!" CHORUS: "Oh ignorant!" wretched Jason! So sure of destiny and so

MEDEA: "I understand the horror of what I am going to do. But anger, the spring of all life's horror, masters my resolve". MESSENGER: "Happiness is a thing no man possesses. Fortune may come now to one man, now to another, as prosperity increases, happiness never". CHORUS: "I'm sure we ought to save the children's lives". JASON: "You abomination...guilty of gross pollution". MEDEA: "I've reached your heart and that is right...It's true but my pain's a fair price to take away your smile". CHORUS: "Many matters the gods bring to surprising ends. The things we thought would happen do not happen; the unexpected god makes possible; and such is the conclusion of this story".