English school work

Megaera

This is a very short excerpt from a monologue I had to draft for some A-Level Coursework 

[Pacing Angrily]

How dare he? How dare he betray me? For this he will pay, for this all mankind will pay. Let them feel the wrath of the sea, it will forever remain a tumultuous mass of my hatred. Mankind will rue the day that He decided to reject my love. I had put down my life for him. And how was I repaid? He used my gift to woo some common strumpet. She will grow old and frail, her beauty will fade to dust, and she will crumble. But it is him I curse, and I curse him alone. I will pour my vengeance into a crucible forged from the ice of my hate, to it I will add the swirling depths of the unknown and I shall mix it with the toxic spines of my brethren; those also birthed from Uranus's phallic essence, and from this tar I will shape a beast. A beast. A beast as to swallow him whole for three days and nights, and then he will never die, an eternal torment in which he will watch those he loves die.

[Hair blows around form, stands still, centre stage]

How could he do this to me? I needed him. I thought he had needed me, but I guess I was wrong. I loved him. How pitiful, one of the mighty furies falling for a mortal, I thought he saw through my scalding hatred, and in his eyes I had removed the malignant serpents from my soul. I should have listened. All my life I had been told never to trust a mortal, my own birth emerged from an act of patricide, and this is how I am reimbursed, my heart, it shatters. I feel the fragments, it is as though I am a small urn, containing the entirety of Aegaeus in my chest. How will I go on? How do mortal women do this? On the Gaia this must occur every day, I see women lose their men daily, but no more, I will intercede, I must intercede.

[Resumes Pacing]

May his name bring a curse to any vessel that crosses my waves, I will make it that he can never leave my reign but for a single day, once in every decennium, but only so that he can fall in temptation, to remind him of his loss. Yes, I know that my name will soon fade from the lips of mankind, but his will not. He will wear many a name, so many will know of him, but they shall never truly know him.

[Stand downstage right, raise hands, palms outwards, hair swirling]

And he shall remain an outsider, banished from his own home, and he will regret it. He will regret losing me. How could he fathom... A mortal... She is mortal, her children will all remain as weak as the louse that spawned them, I will smite them. Take heed, I, Megaera, borne from the spilt blood of Uranus, do place my mark on the man of infidelity, all men guilty of betraying their wives. The first of the three furies has cast her piece, in the presence of my sisters Alecto and Tisiphone, may my anger hold fast in its origin. May the phallic blood of Uranus burn strongly in my veins to boil the tides with in all dishonest men.