#Medea quotes

[jpriest85-blog]

Some more @gonzague-if art featuring my Prince Médée, Peyrolles, and quotes from her namesake Greek tragedy.

"Terrible things breed in broken hearts. And I see in my Mistress' eyes a fury that won't be calmed... It can’t be long until her sorrow turns, as sorrow always does, into rage." -Euripidies, Medea

Playing as a female Gonzague is interesting because while Médée is still cunning, charismatic, and envious like her literary counterpart, her motivation for literally stabbing Nevers in the back hits different. Losing everything and becoming destitute is terrifying even today, but it would have been even more dire situation for Médée. She's been able to ensure both her survival and freedom because of her title as Prince, while most women during this time period would have to have very limited opportunities to be financially independent. She's very aware of what can happen if she loses everything, and having the title of Prince won't count for much if she's out on the streets. Securing this marriage is literally life or death situation from Médée's perspective!

Lbr if she hadn't taken her brothers name and inherited his title, she would have easily wound up like Aurore, or ironically even becoming Aurore's stepmother, as the Marquis de Caylus seems like the type of man Médée's father would have married her off to. Which just fills her with so much guilt and rage about this whole situation with marriage, Aurore, and Nevers.

As much as Médée loved Nevers, she's not willing to risk giving up her life or freedom to become his wife. Likewise, while she knows her intentions of marrying Aurore where more for financial gain, but she does care and emphasize with her enough to try and make their Marriage of Convenience be mutually beneficial by giving Aurore freedom to live her own life for once. Sadly, things don't work out as planned.

Médée's relationship dynamic with Peyrolles is fascinating, though, because while it started out as securing a useful asset via blackmail I could easily see them eventually becoming partners both in schemes and in life. I learned from recent asks that Peyrolles is drawn to people considered outsiders by society, and when they become romantically involved with someone, they're emotionally devoted to them. Tbh Médée would need someone like that in her life. She's become so accustomed to her affections being unrequited or rejected, it'd be refreshing for her to finally realize that she can depend on Peyrolles not just to take care of her business, and secrets but also her emotional needs as well. You know, in addition to helping her cover up the murders and conspiracies....

Oh dear Médée's potential relationship with Peyrolles will probably involve a lot of enabling and unhealthy amount of codependency for both of them 🤔😰

[rue-with-the-tarot]

✨Incorrect Greek Mythology Quotes✨

[shirleyjacksonism]

"What does it mean to be a descendant of something monstrous? To still love the monster?"

On Earth We're Breafly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong // How to Wear Your Mother's Lipstick, Warsan Shrine // Taint, Paul Tran // The Lion in Winter (1968) // Mirror Traps, Hera Lindsay Bird // No Human Hands to Touch, Elizabeth Wein // Family Tree (Intro), Ethel Cain // The Winter Prince, Elizabeth Wein // On Hysteria, Sam Sax

[mytholots]

Medea: look Jason, I'm not slut shaming you but...

Medea: Actually yeah, I'm TOTALLY slut shaming you.

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[stavroginas]

— Euripides, Medea

[pierppasolini]

Medea (1969) // dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Hi! Could you do a web weave of unreciprocated love?

Michelle K. But I am Selfish / Jane Seville Zero at the Bone / pinterest / Salma Deera Letters from Medea / Miles Johnston Disturbing Dreams / Sea Wolf The Garden That You Planted / Christa Wolf (tr. Jan van Heurck) Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays / Billie Eilish Billie Bossa Nova / Boygenius Bite the Hand / W.S. Merwin

[hauntedbythenarrative]

What else can my hands do with the blood? Pray?

Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace//Medea, Euripides//Meet You in Hell, Jade LeMac//Medea, Euripides//Aimed to Kill, Jade Lemac//Cassandra, Florence + The Machine//Nightmare, Halsey//Control, Halsey//Jade LeMac//All the wrong colours, Yrsa Daley-Ward

[cissa-calls]

Countdown to Coven of Chaos: Day 501

Agatha: *shaking Wanda awake* “Hey, hey, hey”

Wanda: “Huh? What’s wrong?…it’s 3 in the morning Aggs”

Agatha: “It’s an emergency”

Wanda: “What happened? Who’s hurt?”

Agatha: “No. worse. Do you think Medea was an example of feminine rage overtly judged by a misogynistic society or an insane fractured being who deserves condemnation as an example of revenge?”

Wanda: “I’m sorry, THAT was the emergency?!”

Y/N, barely awake: “Both. She’s both.”

Agatha: “I suppose so, but perhaps-“

Wanda: “You’ve had several centuries to talk about that play, so zip it and keep all existential relations to antiquity in your brain till the morning!”

Agatha: “But I can’t sleep! I gotta know!”

Wanda: “Just stay up then plagued by your own existence like normal people then. GOODNIGHT”

[theodysseyofhomer]

As to the curious preternatural ending of a play so consistently natural—Medea's appearing in a chariot drawn by dragons—it seems to me that Euripides is saying: "Yes, you are right to be disconcerted by the fantasy of a dragon-chariot to whisk Medea away to safety. This woman needs no divine help, only human."

Paul Roche, introduction to Medea

[nerdasaurus1200]

If Medea had friends in Euripdes’ ‘Medea’

Medea: Alright enough of this. We’re killing Glauce

Atalanta: Dea, you can’t kill her.

Medea: You don’t think I can kill a helpless little princess? Okay, will I will burn her to a crisp! WITH THAT DRESS! LIKE LIGHTING A FUNERAL PYRE!

Atalanta: Oh, no, I believe you have the ability to kill her. What I’m saying is that if you do, you’ll just put an even bigger target on your back.

Eurydice: Also you’d be a murderer. Which some may argue is worse.

[bones-ivy-breath]

Granddaughter of the Sun: A Study of Euripides' Medea by C.A.E. Luschnig

[i-became-the-lady-of-the-blog]

Dion x Medea AU

*At the engagement party*

Medea: He's Dion Agriche. He's from a family of psychopaths which also commited crimes since their creation. I finally found my match

The harem: WHY GOD WHY?!!!!

The butler: Is this a funeral or a celebration engagement party?

Dion and Medea @ Butler: Yes

Dion: It'd not be entertaining without few deaths

Medea: You know how to charm a duchess, my darling

Medea's Harem:

[fatestaynighttextposts]

[alicentwhore]

Okay I don’t wanna sound like a dick cause it’s really not a big deal. But I guess because Medea as a play and character is like really important to me, there is kind of an amusing irony to the way I’ve seen so many edits and webweaves and stuff of Alicent with that “wretchedest of women” line from Medea (A line specifically about Medea choosing to kill her sons to avenge herself on Jason). Then those people being completely aghast and disgusted and pissed by the concept of Alicent sacrificing her sons. It means nothing It’s just kinda funny to me