From: Andrew Lorimer Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 03:50:08 +0000 (+1000) Subject: [english] start quotes list for WoT X-Git-Tag: yr12~154 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/notes.git/diff_plain/4b9683b29d975f4f75cbf8725f63c37c9e7029e8?hp=a32312fba0948e51cc3cf63ca27ce126231a699d [english] start quotes list for WoT --- diff --git a/english/troy-quotes.md b/english/troy-quotes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c91ac0b --- /dev/null +++ b/english/troy-quotes.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +# *Women of Troy* Quotes + +## Hope, Despair, Suffering + + +### Life and death + +"The lucky ones are dead" +"Visionary ecstasy" +"She is happier dead than I am living" + +### General complaining + +"After so many sorrows, and in such despiar, words mean nothing" +"My song has become a scream" +"Who will be my master?" + +### Astyanax rip + +"What a wretched, meaningless death" + +### Violence and graphic imagery + +"Butchered like an animal" - re. Polyxena +"blood is still oozing" - Astyanax' death + +## Inhumanity, Morality, Decency + +"I took the opportunity to wash the body" +"There is no decent way to say an indencent thing" +"It degrades the decency of speech" +"I'm not half hard enough" +"Poor woman. You've suffered so much" - Talthybius + +## Power, Strength, Weakness + +"I shall make the Greeks' return home a disaster" +"I do not sleep on a royal mattress anymore" +"were you so frightened of a child that you had to invent this unheard of savagery" +"There is nothing left worth a God's consideration" + +## Men and Women + +"a whole generation of women, raped in their own bedrooms" + +