Quotes about a dead pillow

the gods always hated us

Andromache becoming disenchanted with the gods

my naked flesh will be thrown into a rocky gulley

what is going to happen to Cassandra

howl of agony

what the chorus says Hecuba sounds like

she's happier dead than I am living

Andromache about Polyxena's fate

a whole generation of women raped in their own bedrooms

Brutal description of what happened to the women during the attack on Troy

what howling can give tongue to a pain no animal could endure

Chorus trying to express their grief

teach me, gods of song, some harsh lament dissonant with tears and howls ... invent new sounds for my grief

Chorus using musical imagery to try to express their grief and cope

They died fighting for the fatherland

Cassandra about the Trojan soldiers

who was not dragged away from her home by force, but ran away and was unfaithful

Cassandra on why Helen left the Greeks

The gods hate Troy

Chorus about the gods' opinion of Troy

The Trojans were cut down in their own homes, in sanctuary, beheaded where they lay

Chorus describing the brutality of the death of the Trojans

you whom the gods have cursed

Hecuba about what the gods have done to the women

Let me kneel, lay my old legs on the ground, and my old woman's hands, let them beat the earth

Hecuba at the end alluding to the legend of the dog

why bother to call on them? we called before and they didn't hear us. They ignored our prayers

Hecuba at the end on why we shouldn't call on the gods

Priam, you are dead, ... can you hear my anguished moan?

Hecuba beginning to call on the dead rather than the gods at the end

Oh you gods, what good were you to us? Betrayers!

Hecuba being angry at the gods

My legs are trembling, but I won't fall. Old limbs, strengthen yourselves. Your slavery is beginning.

Hecuba choosing to directly and actively face her fate at the end

wearing make-up, your hair brushed with your best dress on

Hecuba criticising Helen for what she's wearing

Some agonies are beyond telling

Hecuba describing her grief

The force that governs our lives, what else is it but a madman dancing, leaping one way then the next, without pattern or meaning?

Hecuba describing why life is unfair

The living at least have hope. To be dead is to be nothing

Hecuba on why we shouldn't die to Andromache

Born lucky to heighten the tragedy

Hecuba saying how being royal makes this harder

Everything I have done in my life has meant nothing to the vindictive gods

Hecuba saying how nothing matters to the gods

yet ... if the god had not decided to make the greatest suffer most ... what nonentities we would all have been

Hecuba saying that they would not be remembered if everything never happened (There's no mistake in this one this is the actual quote. Blame the translator for making it sound so weird)

Like loot they are stealing us

Hecuba talking about how the women are being dehumanised at the end

The lucky ones are dead

Hecuba talking about how theres no point in living because everyone's gone

My song has become a scream

Hecuba using music imagery to express her dehumanisation

Why not run into the flames?

Hecuba wanting to die with Troy

slave of your lust

Hecuba warns Menelaus not to become one again

The blood's still oozing from the broken bones, laughing at us in its mockery of life

Hecuba's description of Astyanax's corpse

spineless idiot

Helen manipulating Menelaus by calling him names

Consummate the Greek victory by killing your wife!

Helen telling Menelaus what to do with Helen

the sun shines brighter today, this most glorious of days

Menelaus describing the day

I too shall desert famous Troy

Poseidon saying he's going to abandon Troy

poor creature

Poseidon's description of Hecuba

such acts of brainless stupidity

What Hecuba says the gods would never do based on Helen's story.

I took the opportunity to wash the body

Talthybius being not so bad and washing Astyanax's body

I'm a poor man. But there's no way I'd let her anywhere near my bed

Talthybius describing Cassandra as insane

She belongs to Odysseus now

Talthybius describing Hecuba as property at the end of the play

I'm not half hard enough

Talthybius hesitating taking Astyanax away

I shall have to carry the can

Talthybius saying he must follow orders

these are a proud people

Talthybius showing that he understands the women's pain

fill the whole bay if Euboea with floating corpses so thick you could walk on them

What Athene wants to do to the Greeks

I'll kill him, and destroy his whole family in return for my father and brothers destroyed

What Cassandra wants to do to Agamemnon

Howl! Howl! Howl!

What Hecuba says once her fate is settled due to not being able to die

He wants her because she's sacred

Why Agamemnon wants Cassandra

altars soon to drip and smooth floors run slippery with Trojan blood

description of Troy during attack

This child was murdered by the Greeks because they were afraid of him

hecuba on why the Greeks killed Astyanax

tens of thousands dead

how many Greeks died for Helen

a Greek baggage wagon

what Andromache is introduced in

uncontrollable lust

what Menelaus feels for Helen

march down to the Achaean fleet!

the chorus choosing to face their fate actively

Greek war machine

what Poseidon calls the Greek army in the opening monologue