Requires he should be more confin'd and none,Ĭonfer with him. William Congreve, in The Mourning Bride, 1697: Anita is a kind and spiritual woman who thinks shes finally found love, but when her man reveals his true colors, she discovers a rage inside her she never. It would also seem that the concept of the vengeful woman was common in earlier writing, such as in the Jacobean play The Knight of Malta (1625): "The wages of scorn'd Love is baneful hate." Medea, betrayed by her husband who she sacrificed everything for, unleashes a horrific vengeance on her enemies, making both assassins and victims of her own children. It means women go totally ballistic when they get angry. hell hath no fury (like a woman scorned) ( British English, saying) used to refer to somebody, usually a woman, who has reacted very angrily to something, especially the fact that her husband or lover has been unfaithful ( has had a sexual relationship with another woman): He should have known better than to leave her for that young girl. This expression is often attributed to late 17th century English dramatist William Congreve (see below), but the concept of the vengeful scorned woman dates back at least as far as 400 BC as seen in Euripides' most famous play, Medea. by William Congreve in The Mourning Bride of. People usually think that this quote comes from Shakespeare, that it is one of the hundreds of Shakespeare’s phrases that have become idioms, as it looks as though it is one of Shakespeare’s lines. The correct quotation is Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. A woman rejected by her lover is liable to seek revenge on him Background: ‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’ means that there is no greater anger than that of a woman who has been rejected in love.
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