Monologue

Aegeus Monologue from Medea

From Medea by Euripides

male · anguished · 1:01 min

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Woman, indeed my heart goes forth to show This help to thee, first for religion's sake, Then for thy promised hope, to heal my ache Of childlessness. 'Tis this hath made mine whole Life as a shadow, and starved out my soul. But thus it stands with me. Once make thy way To Attic earth, I, as in law I may, Will keep thee and befriend. But in this land, Where Creon rules, I may not raise my hand To shelter thee. Move of thine own essay To seek my house, there thou shalt alway stay, Inviolate, never to be seized again. But come thyself from Corinth. I would fain Even in foreign eyes be alway just.

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Aegeus expresses his deep desire to help Medea while grappling with his own pain of childlessness, revealing the constraints imposed by Creon's rule.

40s · longing · family · power · redemption · isolation

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