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Phaidra
The nurse has the difficult job of looking after Phaidra after she has gone sick with desire. She is both deeply sympathetic with Phaidra’s suffering, but also willing and pragmatic enough to follow her own designs to try to fix things. As a result, when she learns of Phaidra’s illicit desire, she feels so shocked that she decides to take matters into her own hands and acts against Phaidra’s wishes, with disastrous results.
Nurse Quotes in Hippolytus
The Hippolytus quotes below are all either spoken by Nurse or refer to Nurse. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Lines 426-816
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[Love] brings you sweetness and pain, almost
Beyond our human power to feel.
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Your passion is what the god
Has chosen you to become. Accept it.
And though you suffer, be gallant about it.
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Aphrodite,
Sea goddess, share this adventure with me,
Though I have my own tactics
And these, once set in motion,
Once I share them inside with a certain young friend,
Will carry our affair to its climax.
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Lines 817-1119
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You couldn’t keep your mouth shut.
Because of you, after I die
My name will stink of depravity.
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Nurse Quotes in Hippolytus
The Hippolytus quotes below are all either spoken by Nurse or refer to Nurse. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Lines 426-816
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[Love] brings you sweetness and pain, almost
Beyond our human power to feel.
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Your passion is what the god
Has chosen you to become. Accept it.
And though you suffer, be gallant about it.
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Aphrodite,
Sea goddess, share this adventure with me,
Though I have my own tactics
And these, once set in motion,
Once I share them inside with a certain young friend,
Will carry our affair to its climax.
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Lines 817-1119
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You couldn’t keep your mouth shut.
Because of you, after I die
My name will stink of depravity.
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