Orestes

between right and wrong when one is personally involved and caught up in the details. Over the course of the plays, the understanding of justice shifts from personal vendetta to the administration of justice by trial, culminating in the final trial of Orestes in the Eumenides. It is the contention of this paper that the trial in the final play is foreshadowed by a…

Later, the movie shows the ruler of Rome, Orestes, who is Romulus’ father. Although he rules Rome, he is not the Emperor himself. On the day before the coronation of Romulus in 640 AD, Odoacer the Commander of the barbarian Goths allied with the Romans, demanded a third of Italy’s estates from Orestes. Odoacer was promised earlier for his help with the overthrow of the old Emperor of the Eastern Empire, but was denied.…

son Orestes murders his mother queen Clytemnestra and her husband Aegisthus. Once the murder is over orestes begins having vivid solutions of multiple furies attacking and touching him for the death of his mother. Orestes starts sprinting off to the unknown away from the attack that nobody else can see, after many hours of running Orestes rests in a temple near athens; once day breaks a local farmer walks in to see Orestes asleep surrounded by the furies, frantically the farmer wakes Orestes up…

member of yours or a dear friend murdered, retaliating would be the first thought on your mind. As the expression goes, an eye for an eye. However, the quench for revenge could lead to irreversible mistakes without any just cause. In the case of Orestes and his sister Electra, they are determined to slay their mother, Clytemnestra, for the murder of their father, Agamemnon. Will the death of their mother bring Agamemnon back? No. Will it fashion a heroic tale? Yes, but not all heroic tales are…

Electra by Euripides plot is the same as Sophocles’ Electra for it tells a story about Electra and her brother Orestes wanting to get revenge on their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, for killing their father Agamemnon. The events that led to the actions in this play was Clytemnestra killing her husband, to avenge her daughter Iphigenia, Agamemnon and his concubine Cassandra after they returned from the Trojan War. The play’s setting unlike Sophocles’ does not take place entirely in…

Instead, Aegisthus is led inside the palace by Orestes, and although his intention is clear, it is not physically carried out. This suggests that the story is not over and leaves the reader with questions. Had Orestes appeared on stage once again with the murdered body of Aegisthus, emerging victorious, there would be little room for doubt, but instead the play concludes before a…

Later, Orestes returns home and finds his sister, Electra pouring ritual libations at their father’s grave. He vows revenge when he discovers his mother killed his father. Orestes fulfills his duty and murders his mom, Clytemnestra. The furies of the underworld are then awoken, and Orestes is taken to trial in Athens with Apollo as a defense counsel and Athena for his judge. In the end, there is a tie on the votes and Orestes is declared not guilty for killing his…

Orestes must attend trial in Athens for his murderous acts. Although he was once confident in his actions, he is apprehensive as he faces reprimand for his legal injustices. Orestes claims Apollo, a god, and the Furies, goddesses of vengeance, encouraged him to commit such atrocities. Orestes is eventually acquitted for his actions; this is the only instance in the trilogy when cruelty is not met…

In the SGU’s latest theater department production Electra was seemingly themed in the 1970’s or 1980’s. The play had guns and cargo pants set in a war torn land. Although these drastic changes were made from the original play the storyline did not vary too much. The human experience was still revenge, finding and exacting it. This play did a great job of showing the pull between Electra and her sister Chrysothemis also Electra’s own struggle with insanity. What this play did best was show that…

The Oresteia tells the story of a killer getting killed, the killer of this killer getting killed, and the killer of that killer finally going to court instead of being killed. Aeschylus presents it in this matter to show the absurdly long chain of killings, among other problems, caused by the former system of justice. For the final killer, however, he presents a new system and shows its superiority. The justice shown in the beginning of The Oresteia matches the system in Homer’s Iliad nearly…