Medea Speech Analysis

Medea communicates with the chorus in a rash way in the Jeffers adaptation. Furthermore, instead of being cunning and well spoken, she uses fear to provoke the response she desires from the women. In fact, her speeches do not seem well-thought out in this version, they just appear to say what is on her mind at the moment. Consequently, the speeches of this version are significantly shorter than her speeches in the Norton version. She quickly says what she wants to say and quickly gets to the next point she is about to produce. “I did not surely know it: loathing is all. This flesh he has touched and fouled. These hands that wrought for him, these knees that ran his errands” (Page 37). Her efforts to garner pity from the women, is by telling