Hamlet Furies Essay

herself has jumped into the sea. Yet, Harry declared his responsibility for the death of his wife.The use of the furies in the play is meant to provide the link between the two aspects of time of the play, namely the past and present. They firstly have appeared in Wishwood. They are a device that has been used in the Greeks tragedy, and Shakespeare has used such device in his tragedy Hamlet, as the apparition of king Hamlet that used to instigate the protagonist Hamlet to avenge the murder of his father. in the family reunion they furries finally led Harry to happiness and unlike those in Shakespeare. Eliot made them the guide to Harry’s purgation and eventually redemption. Thus, Harry decided to follow them.
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The play of The Family Reunion can be considered as the modern vision of the Greek tragedy of Orestaie by Aeschylus. The two plays rely on the Eumenides. Such background may not totally matches Eliot’s content and age. The furies to be used in the setting of drama of the modern drawing room, this seems little clumsy but the playwright has managed to use such furies in his play and brought some powerful effects of suspicion and fear on the gathering of a family.The use of the chorus in Aeschylus is done by a group of captive women while the chorus is comprised by the aunts and uncles of Harry. In Aeschylus ’s Choephoroe Clytemnestra the mother of Orestes killed her husband Agamemnon with help of her paramour Aegisthus. She saw the ghost of her husband, and that was an ominous in the Greek traditions. Her son Orestes then had a plan, in which he called his mother as a foreign from Daulis sent by Strophius in a disguise to Argos, to tell her that Orestes had died in a chariot’s accident, on the event she persistently has sent her lover Aegisthus for information about Orestes. Orestes had caught him and slayed him and murdered his mother. After that episode of murder Osetres began to see the