Medea

Question 1

Dangerous

Answer 1

“she is dangerous”

Question 2

Evil

Answer 2

“like a wild bull” - plans to harm children, wild

Question 3

Otherness

Answer 3

-Medea always been driven by emotion -> to audience this is a built-in foreign trait and example of ‘otherness’ as a woman

Question 4

Emotional

Answer 4

“she can be wild and hateful” “racks her feelings, fans her rage””
- driven by emotions

“the flame as her fury grows”

Question 5

Sexual element of her relationship

Answer 5

“you’re mad […] for that bed”
- highlight her actions driven by sex and sexual element of her relationship with Jason
-> not a typical Greek woman

“partner of your bed”
-> sexual element of relationship different

“betrayed her bed”
- sexual element

Question 6

Exile

Answer 6

“o father and my country, which I lost”

“sea” “night waves” “watery strait”
- images of the sea/ sea journeys/ ships remind us that Medea is not native and how far she is from home - she is an exile

Question 7

Wild

Answer 7

“my mistress’ rage”
- wild and not controllable like Greek men like their wives to be

“a savage glare like a lioness”
- wild, untameable