Medea Summary

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 Hey all,
Have a upcoming exam and one part is responding to Medea (which is a book I have only skimmed over as I moved Schools and previous school didn't study Medea). A quick summary, important quotes or tips would be GREATLY APPRECIATED 
Thanks

[tiredandstressed]

Medea: plot summary
https://www.litcharts.com/lit/medea/summary
Quote bank
Betrayal/ loyalty:

Spoiler

“But now everything has turned to hatred and where love was once deepest a cancer spreads” pg 51
“a princess’ bed” pg 51
“criminal behaviour” pg 51
“He should be showing love he’s providing a traitor and that I can say!” pg 53
“troubled heart” pg 53
“If only a flaming bolt form heaven would pierce my head!” pg 54
“Wrong a woman in love and nothing on earth has a heart more murderous” pg 57
“You may feel hatred for me, but I could never wish you anything but good” pg 62
“You unspeakable wretch” pg 62
“unfeeling monster” pg 63
“Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths” pg 63
“the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good?” pg 64
“I have acted like a true friend to you and to my children” pg 64
[Medea reacts angrily] pg 64
“a husband as vile as mine” pg 69
“lustful heart” “rottenness of your heart” pg 86

Revenge/ justice:

Spoiler

“I’ve already seen her glaring at them like a bull, as if she wanted to do something awful” pg 53
“savage temperament” pg 53
“sting of injustice” pg 53
“O cursed children of a hateful mother , I want you to die along with your father, and all the house to go to ruin!” pg 54
“Zeus will aid you in seeing justice” pg 55
“I will make corpses of three of my enemies” pg 60
“You owe you life to me” pg 63
“famous name” pg 64
“that you have betrayed your wife and are behaving unjustly” pg 65
“In fact I am now a curse to your house as well” pg 66
“gifts from wicked people bring only harm” pg 66
“It may well turn out (and may the gods agree) that you are entering upon a marriage you will have cause to lament” pg 67
“show you pity when you have suffered suffering’s worst” pg 67
“I do not want to incur guilt in the eyes of friends” pg 70
“I will triumph gloriously over my enemies” pg 71
“kill the king’s daughter” pg 71
“For I shall kill my own children, no one shall take them from me” 71
“abominable indeed” pg 71
“to suffer the mockery of my enemies is something I will not tolerate” pg 72
“that I shall hurt my husband the most” pg 72
“How, then shall the city of sacred streams or the land so hospitable to friends give you a home, the killer of your children” pg 73
“Wretched man, you are indeed deceived in your destiny” pg 76
“Do not regard my family as your enemies” pg 80
“This day it seem heaven has rained many blows justly over the head of Jason” pg 82
“murderers are pain in just measures” pg 83
“mother’s impious act of murder” “you children are dead by the hands of their mother” pg 84
“unspeakable children killer” pg 85
“I have my claws in your heart as you deserve” pg 85
“my pain is cancelled now that any mockery of yours is silenced” pg 85
“Justice who punishes murder!” pg 76

Reason v Passion:

Spoiler

“For moderation in the first place sounds more attractive” pg 54
“Excess, though means no profit” pg 54
“A woman who is hot-tempered, and likewise a man is easier to guard against than one who is clever and controls her tongue” pg 59
“only my children win more love from me than my children” pg 59
[sinking to her knees and seizing CREON by the hand] pg 59
“Terrible is the anger and almost beyond cure, when strife those whom love once joined” pg 64
“receive me in you country and at the hearth of your home” pg 69
“feel anger against a husband when he deals in contraband love” pg 74
“sensible woman should behave” pg 74
“Oh this stubborn heart of mine!” pg 77
“I could not do it! Goodbye to the plans I made” pg 78
“Do I want to become a laughing-stock by letting my enemies scot-free” pg 78
“spare your children” “mockery of enemies” pg 78
“They must be killed” “Come my heart put on your armour” pg 82
“but my passion is master of my reason, passion that causes the greatest suffering in the world” pg 78
“not a woman but a lioness, with a nature more savage than Tuscan Scylla’s” pg 85
Gender/ women roles/ patriarchy:
“when a husband can count on complete support from his wife” pg 51
“she hates her children and takes no pleasure in seeing them” pg 52
“She is no ordinary woman” pg 52
“Is he so different from the rest of man kind?” pg 53
“Women are the most miserable of specimens” pg 56
“When a man becomes dissatisfied with married life, he goes outdoors and finds relief to his frustrations. But we are bound to love one partner and look no further” pg 57
“I fear you” pg 58
“Do you imagine I would ever have stooped to flattery of this man without having some profit, some scheme in mind? Would I have wasted breath on him or touched him with these hands? Never!” pg 60
“No more shall we women endure the burden of ill-repute” pg 61
“The rolling ages have much to tell of our side, much, as well, of men’s” pg 61
“you women have reached the point where you think your happiness is complete when love smiles on you but, should some misfortune mar than love” pg 65
Removal of woman “would rid the world of all its troubles” pg 65
[she assumes a posture of helplessness in front of him] pg 69
“Let no one think of me a weak and feeble woman” pg 72
“A woman is a soft creature, made for weeping” pg 75
“She’s a woman like all the rest!” pg 75
“woman born to sorrow” pg 82
“shall meet a coward’s end” pg 86

Power imbalances:

Spoiler

“your foolish mind” pg 62
“my hopes are dashed” pg 63
“To be denied one’s native land is a misery beyond all others” pg 67
“the golden coronet” pg 81
“devouring fire” “wretched girl’s white flesh” pg 81
“flame burned twice as fiercely” “flesh melted away” pg 81
[chariot drawn by dragons] pg 84
“What men expect does not happen, for the unexpected, heaven finds a way. And so it has turned out here today” pg 87 (final quote)