Monologue

Creon Monologue from Medea

From Medea by Euripides

male · dark · 1:06 min

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What crime? I fear thee, woman--little need To cloak my reasons--lest thou work some deed Of darkness on my child. And in that fear Reasons enough have part. Thou comest here A wise-woman confessed, and full of lore In unknown ways of evil. Thou art sore In heart, being parted from thy lover's arms. And more, thou hast made menace . . . so the alarms But now have reached mine ear . . . on bride and groom, And him who gave the bride, to work thy doom Of vengeance. Which, ere yet it be too late, I sweep aside. I choose to earn thine hate Of set will now, not palter with the mood Of mercy, and hereafter weep in blood.

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Creon expresses his deep fear of Medea's potential for vengeance against his family, revealing his determination to act preemptively to protect his child.

40s · fear · revenge · power · betrayal · family

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