quotes

Question 1

description of land in WSS

Answer 1

‘gone wild’ ‘snaky looking’ ‘stealthy’

Question 2

Rochester thinking about Amelie

Answer 2

‘he knew she would be wearing white, thinking about her hair and bare feet’

Question 3

Jason commands servants

Answer 3

‘quick servants, remove the bars, undo the fastenings’

Question 4

Coco

Answer 4

‘coco made an effort to fly down, but his clipped wings failed him, and he fell screeching. He was all on fire’

Question 5

How Medea will kill Jason’s fiance

Answer 5

‘the direct way is the best one, the one in which i am most skilled, I will poison them’

Question 6

Medea in chariot

Answer 6

‘Jason shakes the door of the house which remains closed, Medea appears in a winged chariot, rising above the house, the bodies of her two children visible in the chariot’

Question 7

chorus worried about medea

Answer 7

‘poor lady, wretched in your sorrows, when will you ever turn’

Question 8

roles reversed

Answer 8

‘sacred rivers flow up hill, justice and all other things are reversed’

Question 9

christophine on her children and men

Answer 9

‘3 children I have, one still in this world, all different fathers, but no husband, I thank my god!’

Question 10

Christophine and money

Answer 10

‘I keep my money, I don’t give it to no reckless man’

Question 11

Antoinette red dress

Answer 11

‘I took the red dress against myself ‘does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?’

Question 12

Medea sending presents

Answer 12

‘I will send her gifts, the finest in the world, a finely woven dress and a crown of beaten gold. The boys will take them’

Question 13

alien description of Antoinette from Rotty

Answer 13

‘with an alien, disturbing, secret loveliness’

Question 14

Annette mad

Answer 14

‘The madness got worse, and she had to be shut away, for she tried to kill her husband’

Question 15

Family

Answer 15

‘I don’t like to see the family suffering’ and ‘I have no family, no mother or brother to guide me in this world’

Question 16

Husband and Wife

Answer 16

‘You have acted wrongly, you have betrayed your wife’. and ‘but I cannot go, he is my husband after all’

Question 17

being a greek woman

Answer 17

‘No greek woman would have ever have brought herself to do this’

Question 18

chorus describe Medea angry at jason

Answer 18

‘Medea, scowling there with fury at your husband’

Question 19

Medea talking about childbirth

Answer 19

‘I would three times go to war then suffer childbirth once’

Question 20

husband own body

Answer 20

‘When for an extravagant sum with have bought a husband, we must now accept him as posesser of our body’

Question 21

women wretched

Answer 21

‘surely of all creatures that have life we women are the most wretched’

Question 22

women must stay with husband

Answer 22

‘we wives are bound to look in one direction only’

Question 23

Medea alone

Answer 23

‘I am alone, I have no city, now my husband insults me’

Question 24

Medea kill her sons

Answer 24

‘I will kill my sons, no one shall take my beloved children from me’

Question 25

Antoinnete unsure of herself

Answer 25

'what am I doing in this place and who am I'

Question 26

Antoinnette scared child

Answer 26

'I used to sleep with a piece of wood by my bed, that's how scared I was'

Question 27

sad and beautiful

Answer 27

'have all beautiful things sad destinies'

Question 28

Rochester being a prick

Answer 28

'I looked at her sharply but she seemed insignificant'

Question 29

Rochester thinks antoinette is dangerous

Answer 29

'I like the look of her but she seems a most dangerous person'

Question 30

Bertha

Answer 30

'My name is Bertha, why do you call me Bertha' 'No bertha, tonight you must be Bertha' 'because Bertha is a name I am particuarly fond of'

Question 31

Race in WSS

Answer 31

'they say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did'

Question 32

Jason on exile

Answer 32

'consider yourself lucky that your punishment is merely exile'

Question 33

Chorus having empathy

Answer 33

'I don't like to see a family suffering', 'i sympathise with them' 'poor Medea'