The myth of Agamemnon and his son Orestes has impacted many different customs and actions of today’s society and culture. The main points of the story have connected through Ritual theories that are used today, the structural world and how it has changed from ancient times to modern times, and the allegories that are associated with the stories in this myth and how they relate to the comparisons that are used today.
During the first play, Agamemnon returns back from the Trojan War and his wife is unhappy and kills him. Her act of killing her husband is one example of the Ritual Theories that are emphasized in beliefs of culture and religion used today. Ritual theories are explained by the myths that have the same rituals or cultural beliefs/ …show more content…
When someone does something to the extreme of killing another person, they usually feel some type of remorse or guilt of what they did. They have an uneasy feeling in there stomach, feel pressured, and wonder if they did was right. These exact feelings were shown in this myth when Orestes had the Furies come after him. They were surrounding him, and he was feeling pressured. Also Apollo was there to try and stop the furies, as Orestes was clinging for his life, feeling fearful of what is going to happen. As an allegory we can compare that the furies can be compared to the feeling of guilt we experience today. After the trail had taken place, the furies, which were representing guilt, had deemed that Orestes was not “guilty” so to say and the furies became the Eumenides, meaning kindly ones. That is compared the feeling if guilt being lifted off of your shoulders. When Orestes was deemed not guilty, the furies didn’t pursue him and he had the feeling of being “guilt free”. One excerpt taken from the play was a conversation between Athena and the Furies before they became Eumenides. Athena: “one free of pain, why not accept?”, Chorus leader: ”If I do, what honors would I get?”, Athena: “Without you, no family could thrive.” (Steele and Alwa 2014, 335). This interaction can be analyzed as if you don’t remove guilt and pursue the feeling of guilt on people
During the first play, Agamemnon returns back from the Trojan War and his wife is unhappy and kills him. Her act of killing her husband is one example of the Ritual Theories that are emphasized in beliefs of culture and religion used today. Ritual theories are explained by the myths that have the same rituals or cultural beliefs/ …show more content…
When someone does something to the extreme of killing another person, they usually feel some type of remorse or guilt of what they did. They have an uneasy feeling in there stomach, feel pressured, and wonder if they did was right. These exact feelings were shown in this myth when Orestes had the Furies come after him. They were surrounding him, and he was feeling pressured. Also Apollo was there to try and stop the furies, as Orestes was clinging for his life, feeling fearful of what is going to happen. As an allegory we can compare that the furies can be compared to the feeling of guilt we experience today. After the trail had taken place, the furies, which were representing guilt, had deemed that Orestes was not “guilty” so to say and the furies became the Eumenides, meaning kindly ones. That is compared the feeling if guilt being lifted off of your shoulders. When Orestes was deemed not guilty, the furies didn’t pursue him and he had the feeling of being “guilt free”. One excerpt taken from the play was a conversation between Athena and the Furies before they became Eumenides. Athena: “one free of pain, why not accept?”, Chorus leader: ”If I do, what honors would I get?”, Athena: “Without you, no family could thrive.” (Steele and Alwa 2014, 335). This interaction can be analyzed as if you don’t remove guilt and pursue the feeling of guilt on people