Medea

Jong Park

Period 2

10/25/05

Study Guide #3 Medea

Stasimon 4

1.

"Now there is no hope left for the children's lives. Now there is none. They are walking already to murder." "and now her wedding will be with the dead below, into such a trap she will fall, poor thing, into such a fate of death and never escape from under that curse."

Episode 5

1.

It means that the bride, the king, and the children will die.

2.

"Oh, what a wretch I am in this my self-willed thought! What was the purpose, children, for which I reared you? For all my travail and wearing myself away? They were sterile, those pains I had in the bearing of you. Oh surely once the hopes in you I had, poor me, were high ones: you would look after me in old age. I renounce my plans I had before. I'll take my children away from this land." "Ah, what is wrong with me? Do I want to let go my enemies unhurt and be laughed at for it? I must face this thing." "Do not, O my heart, you must not do these things! Poor heart, let them go, have pity upon the children. If they live with you in Athens they will cheer you." "Noo, the diadem is now upon her head, and she, the royal princess, is dying in the dress, I know it."

Stasimon 5