I saw the movie last week, quite late comparing to all of you. I particularly like the monologue about Medea, when Sophie and her kids playing near a church and then it started to rain. Can any one of you tell me where to find it? Or if you can send me the entire monologue, it will be perfect, thank you.
shareTry http://www.monologuearchive.com/e/euripides_005.html
shareThank you for the Medea link--it was most helpful.
"And all the pieces matter"
I wrote it out because I wanted to think about it (and the poem Sebastien reads) after the film was finished. It is the English translation btw.
Society dictated that women be virtuous and subservient to their husbands. Medea's portrayed as the perfect wife, who weaves, gives birth to children, maintains the home, until the day Jason betrays her. Medea's jealousy is so great. In order to strike at her husband's heart, she commits the ultimate sacrifice: Slaying her own children. She knows it's the only way to truly punish him. Euripides shows that under extreme pressure women will explode. And, as in Medea, children end up in pieces.
Tragedy questions the nature of humankind, its position in the universe, its relation to forces governing existence. The character called protagonist, or tragic hero, suffers from misfortune that's not accidental, thus not devoid of meaning insofar as the hero's actions and his misfortunes are inextricably linked. Tragedy highlights human vulnerability whose suffering is provoked by a combination of human and divine acts. That is why tragedy's not possible in modern life. Our society has lost faith. We live in a world that has forgotten God. The best we can do is to live out a drama.
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