Page 26 - GALIET INFINITE MEDEA: Euripides IV

sagacious arteries, her furious passions, her fundamentalism and righteousness, her courageous, male heroic spirit? Can no Greek man’s heart be blown about the stars in trembling pity and fierce terror? Can no Greek man’s mind vibrate with King Aegeus’ spurning of, abhorring of Jason’s infidelity, perfidy? Can no Greek man’s war-wounds commiserate with her festering sores: her misfortune, shame and sudden, forced exile? Medea’s heart-ripping predicament; is it not but a bardic swarm of slings and arrows? To be forced into exile on a one’s day notice. To face losing her children to Creon’s Royal House, to enslave them to an unloving step-mother and abandon them to uncertain, infernal days ahead before acting on Princess’ Death. To have to kill her progeny46 knowing that “ill, is what she has to do,” to prevent Corinthian revenge, to think, “the kindest death is by the hand of the mother” (1236-50), to succumb to her savage passion, to the sinister light of her own interminable suffering, of Jason’s multiple suffering, s.p.e.l.l.i.n.g.
g u i l t y beyond left and right margins After Princess’ and King’s Deaths.
c u l p a b le
Surely, humanity marches on, marches on, with more than 300
in ∞ numbers to
Plataea’s war, to Medea’s hell chambers
46Story bound to repeat itself in the history of humankind. Toni Morrison’s Beloved where Sethe in act of love and despair kills her children to save them from slavery. (True story of Margaret Garner who kills child in 1855). Recalls the Latimer case in Canada and many others of women suffering desperate persecution and exile in parts of the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.
• 26•