medea

• gücüne ve nefretine saygı duyulan, canlandırırken kendimden geçtiğim kadın... hala hafızaya kazılı, intikam isteğiyle süslenmiş olağanüstü güzel replikleri vardır. bunlardan örnekler verelim, beş sene sonra kendimizi yine sahnede hissedelim..
  
  [corinthia kralı creon medea'yı ülkeden kovmak üzere gelmiştir çünkü medea'nın büyücü olduğu söylentisi dolaşmaktadır, bu cümleye kadar metanetini koruyan medea bir kelimeyle kendini kaybeder]
  
  creon - ... i pity you, medea, but you must go.
  medea - you pity me? you... pity me? i will endure a dog's pity or a wart-grown toad's. may god who hears me... we shall see in the end who's to be pitied!
  
  [medea'nın ilahi adalet anlayışı]
  
  medea - if there is any rightness on earth or in heaven, they will be punished.
  
  [jason çocukları ziyarete gelmiştir, medea onlara bakar]
  
  medea - look at him : he loves them, ah? therefore his dear children are not going to that city but to a darker city, where no games are played, no music is heard. do you think i am a cow lowing after the calf? or a bitch with pups, licking the hand that struck her? watch and see. watch this man, women : he is going to weep. i think he is going to weep blood and quite soon, and much more than i have wept. watch and keep silence..
  .
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  anyone running between me and my justice will reap what no man wants.
  
  [medea çocuklarını öldürmek ve öldürmemek arasında gidip gelmektedir, creon ve kızının ölümünün ardından onlarla konuşur]
  
  medea - therefore, this final sacrifice i intended glares in my eyes like a lion on a ridge.
  we still hate, you know: a person nerarer than these, more vile, more contemptible,
  whom i... i cannot. if he were my own hands i would cut him off, my eyes, i would gouge him out-
  but not you: that was madness.
  so jason will be able to say "i have lost much, but not all : i have children: my sons are well." that too is unbearable.
  i want him crushed, boneless, crawling... i have no choice.
  (onu dinlemekte olan kadınlara döner)
  you there! you thought me soft and submissive like a common woman-who takes a blow and cries a little, and she wipes her face and runs about housework, loving her master? i am not such a woman!
  
  [ve sonunda jason gelir, çocuklarının cesetleriyle karşılaşır. hiç değilse vücutları alıp gömmek istediğini söyler ve medea son sözüyle perdeyi kapatır]
  
  medea - no. they are mine. they are going with me: the chariot is in the gate. you had love and betrayed it; now of all men you are utterly the most miserable, as i of women. but i, a woman, a foreigner, alone against you and the might of corinth- have met you throat for throat, evil for evil. now i go forth under the cold eyes of the stars: - not me they scorn.
  
  ah medea, yıldızlar önünde eğildi senin, böyle de bir kadınsın işte.