The Anonymous Years
(Enters Orestes into the main living area)
The Chorus
Orestes, we have brought news from Argos. Your mother has betrayed your father and his kingdom. Your father has endured a gruesome death. The Kingdom of Argos is now laying at rest alongside your father. We no longer have a reason to thrive. Unless, the justice that your mother deserves is carried out upon her and her lover, Aegisthus.
Orestes
The news from Argos, but how could this be? My mother has murdered my father. After ten long years, he returned home as a hero to most but an enemy to her. She spent the years he was away lying with another man in my father’s house and plotting the atrocity she would commit when he returned.
(Pylades enters into the main living …show more content…
I have estimated the period of absence to be approximately four years. The length of the period of absence is too long to tell everything that happens during this time. Therefore, I have created two scenes that explain two events that occurred during the scene of absence. In the first scene, the Chorus and Orestes have a conversation. The chorus has transformed from old men who do not take action under any circumstances to young gentlemen who are concerned about the state of their country. The changing of the Chorus is a trend we see throughout all three trilogies. In the first trilogy, the chorus was made up of old men who were all bark with no bite. In the second trilogy, the Chorus was composed of the slave women of Argos. These women were actually brought back from Troy to be turned into slaves when they returned. In the third trilogy, the Chorus transformed into the furies. So, throughout the three trilogies we observe as the Chorus transforms from taking no action at all to being the action behind the …show more content…
The theme of revenge begins early in the first trilogy and continues throughout the end of the final trilogy. The scenes that entail revenge all have several similarities. In the first trilogy, Clytemnestra has ten years to plot her revenge on Agamemnon. The actions that she carried out were not out of angry reflexes. The actions were carefully planned out and set in stone. Clytemnestra was sure that Agamemnon deserved what he was getting. In the embedded scene, Orestes’ plot of justice also mimics Clytemnestra’s plot of justice. After receiving the news of his father’s death, Orestes did not immediately seek revenge out of anger. He put the well- being of his family before his need for justice and revenge. Although, Orestes’ feelings were diminished for the time being he knew that eventually his mother and Aegisthus would endure the revenge that they
(Enters Orestes into the main living area)
The Chorus
Orestes, we have brought news from Argos. Your mother has betrayed your father and his kingdom. Your father has endured a gruesome death. The Kingdom of Argos is now laying at rest alongside your father. We no longer have a reason to thrive. Unless, the justice that your mother deserves is carried out upon her and her lover, Aegisthus.
Orestes
The news from Argos, but how could this be? My mother has murdered my father. After ten long years, he returned home as a hero to most but an enemy to her. She spent the years he was away lying with another man in my father’s house and plotting the atrocity she would commit when he returned.
(Pylades enters into the main living …show more content…
I have estimated the period of absence to be approximately four years. The length of the period of absence is too long to tell everything that happens during this time. Therefore, I have created two scenes that explain two events that occurred during the scene of absence. In the first scene, the Chorus and Orestes have a conversation. The chorus has transformed from old men who do not take action under any circumstances to young gentlemen who are concerned about the state of their country. The changing of the Chorus is a trend we see throughout all three trilogies. In the first trilogy, the chorus was made up of old men who were all bark with no bite. In the second trilogy, the Chorus was composed of the slave women of Argos. These women were actually brought back from Troy to be turned into slaves when they returned. In the third trilogy, the Chorus transformed into the furies. So, throughout the three trilogies we observe as the Chorus transforms from taking no action at all to being the action behind the …show more content…
The theme of revenge begins early in the first trilogy and continues throughout the end of the final trilogy. The scenes that entail revenge all have several similarities. In the first trilogy, Clytemnestra has ten years to plot her revenge on Agamemnon. The actions that she carried out were not out of angry reflexes. The actions were carefully planned out and set in stone. Clytemnestra was sure that Agamemnon deserved what he was getting. In the embedded scene, Orestes’ plot of justice also mimics Clytemnestra’s plot of justice. After receiving the news of his father’s death, Orestes did not immediately seek revenge out of anger. He put the well- being of his family before his need for justice and revenge. Although, Orestes’ feelings were diminished for the time being he knew that eventually his mother and Aegisthus would endure the revenge that they