Rachel Cusk
Medea
Rachel Cusk

Medea

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Medea's marriage is breaking up. And so is everything else. Testing the limits of revenge and liberty, Euripides' seminal play cuts to the heart of gender politics and asks what it means to be a woman and a wife.
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55 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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Quotes

  • Sandra Viviana Chisaca Leivahas quoted2 years ago
    You confuse facts with feelings for the sake of convenience.
    You condemn what’s right; to what’s wrong you show lenience.
  • Sandra Viviana Chisaca Leivahas quoted2 years ago
    But the future belongs to the bold and the amorous:
    abandoned wives are at best unglamorous.
    You expect her to step aside,
    acknowledge defeat by the new young bride;
    shout a bit maybe, cry her woe,
    but ultimately – to let him go.
    Deep down we want her to, let’s admit:
    the social order depends on it.
    Anything else is too much of a chore:
    this whining about justice is a bit of a bore.
    We’ve all homes to go to – the show must go on
  • Sandra Viviana Chisaca Leivahas quoted2 years ago
    MESSENGER

    One tries to keep a balanced view
    of humans and the things they do;
    but speaking for moi and moi alone
    this is too naughty to condone.
    What could be easier to condemn
    than a mother abandoning her children?
    A mother’s task is to protect:
    unnatural should she defect.
    Surely she should take the hit –
    let him get away with it –
    spare those lambs the fear and pain,
    sacrifice herself, not them

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