The Retail Party Essay

As we move from reference to the house of Argo in The family Reunion we arrive at the house of Admetus,The Cocktail Party has an allusion to the Greek myth of Euripides’ Alcestis in which, somebody should still die instead of Admetus .As it looks that, though Admetus asks his parents and then his close friends in search of somone who replaces him, all are reluctant to assume his role, until Admetus’s wife, Alcestis, heartily approves to do so, for two reasons first because she loves him and secondly for the sake of the children to grow up in the care of their father. This merely ironic, of course, uncovering another of the few realities that can be relied on to hold at any place and time: “Death is a taker, not a giver. Admetus permits Alcestis to …show more content…
As might be suspected, Hercules has no problem in implementing his task, and he brings Alcestis, sounds and a live from the grave itself, back to Admetus .Although he first thinks that it is all a magic, he sooner has realized that the wife who had heartily and willingly surrendered her life for his sake is now miraculously regained. An interesting story like this , with its mixture of the myth and the old fairy tale, provides many potential themes, like the ultimate power that our consciousness of death plays in human conditions, The terrible price of the emotional and psychological consequences of the choices laid out for options of the individuals. No matter how exaggerated the myth of Euripides yet still the reason is for drawing a nice picture of love story with the help of valor and heroism as well as the self-sacrifice. It does not mean; however, only that romantic love that one individual might show for another but of what such love is able to