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   1# *Women of Troy* Quotes
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   3## Hope, Despair, Suffering
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   6### Life and death
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   8"The lucky ones are dead"
   9"Visionary ecstasy"
  10"She is happier dead than I am living"
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  12### General complaining
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  14"After so many sorrows, and in such despiar, words mean nothing"
  15"My song has become a scream"
  16"Who will be my master?"
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  18### Astyanax rip
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  20"What a wretched, meaningless death"
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  22### Violence and graphic imagery
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  24"Butchered like an animal" - re. Polyxena
  25"blood is still oozing" - Astyanax' death
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  27## Inhumanity, Morality, Decency
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  29"I took the opportunity to wash the body"
  30"There is no decent way to say an indencent thing"
  31"It degrades the decency of speech"
  32"I'm not half hard enough"
  33"Poor woman. You've suffered so much" - Talthybius
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  35## Power, Strength, Weakness
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  37"I shall make the Greeks' return home a disaster"
  38"I do not sleep on a royal mattress anymore"
  39"were you so frightened of a child that you had to invent this unheard of savagery"
  40"There is nothing left worth a God's consideration"
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  42## Men and Women
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  44"a whole generation of women, raped in their own bedrooms"
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