#pg. tempt

—     𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍  :   𝐈.  𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐘𝐏𝐄.

LADY MACBETH / THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH — “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood, stop up the access and passage to remorse, that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between the effect and it! Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, to cry ‘hold, hold!’”

CLEOPATRA / ANTONY & CLEOPATRA — “Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me...”

HERA / HERA’S REBELLION AGAINST ZEUS (x) — “Though Hera remained faithful to Zeus, Zeus often betrayed her by sleeping with others. So, when Zeus was harsh on the other gods, Hera talked them into a revolt against Zeus. Hera drugged Zeus and the other gods bound him on his bed and stole his thunderbolt. However, Briareus, who had been freed by Zeus from the prison Tartarus, overheard their conversation and realized that Zeus was tied. He sneaked in and untied the king of the gods. Zeus woke up and was furious. He hung Hera from the heavens with golden shackles. Hera cried all night but no one dared to help her. The next day Zeus showed her mercy and released her but only after he made her swear that she would never again plot and rebel against him.”

KING / FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE — I need my golden crown of sorrow, my bloody sword to swing / My empty halls to echo with grand self-mythology / I am no mother, I am no bride, I am King.