... even argues with herself on this matter, saying, "Poor heart, let them go, have pity upon the children No! By Hell's avenging furies it shall not be."" Medea vacillates internally between what reason and civilization dictates, that is, to keep her children from harm, and what her instinctive ... her children from external harm "from the people of Corinth "by killing them herself, and declaring, "this shall never be, that I should suffer my children to be the prey of my enemies' insolence."" (Medea, Euripides, lines 1060-1062) The marriage of these two ambivalent natures thus cannot ... ,...

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