Oresteia Symbolism
The Oresteia is known as the only play that has a great impacted on Greek plays. The Oresteia had a very socking ending the most reads like myself had to go back and reread just to understand stand the story line. Throughout the whole story the reader learns different metaphors and symbols to represent day and night, the different types of weather and happiness and sadness. As the reader I also saw a lot of examples of animals being used symbolism and the people who forgot how to carry self as beasts. The whole play have set the seen of doom. It prepares the reader for killing of the king’s murder and the act of other violent scene that’s not welled explain in the reading. As the story line builds up we learn that “The cyclical of blood crimes.
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And that the past of lots of blood of the House of Atreus will still take full effect the next generations after generations. We learned that on going throughout the play there was going to be no stop violence because of the past. No matter how much blood was use to paid there’s still going to be violence going on would never be paid in full. Learned later in the reading that Agamemnon, Clytemnestra and Orestes all had faced choices that not one knew what direction to go to solve them. Most of the conflict that was held was between the old goods and new goods and neither behalf having a clear cut right and wrong. Agamemnon was the son of King Atreus of Mycenae, know as the great commander f or the Greek Trojan war, and also had for children with Clytemnestra. As the story goes on he was later murdered by Clytemnestra and her new found love Augustus. Clytemnestra was the daughter of King Tyndareus and Leda. She began to have her affair with Augustus during the time her husband Agamemnon was fighting in the Trojan. She had continued to play the role of her new found husband queen until her son Orestes killed her for the revenge of his father’s death. None of the siblings nor Clytemnestra thought that her own child would turn their back and kill her but neither did Agamemnon see it
And that the past of lots of blood of the House of Atreus will still take full effect the next generations after generations. We learned that on going throughout the play there was going to be no stop violence because of the past. No matter how much blood was use to paid there’s still going to be violence going on would never be paid in full. Learned later in the reading that Agamemnon, Clytemnestra and Orestes all had faced choices that not one knew what direction to go to solve them. Most of the conflict that was held was between the old goods and new goods and neither behalf having a clear cut right and wrong. Agamemnon was the son of King Atreus of Mycenae, know as the great commander f or the Greek Trojan war, and also had for children with Clytemnestra. As the story goes on he was later murdered by Clytemnestra and her new found love Augustus. Clytemnestra was the daughter of King Tyndareus and Leda. She began to have her affair with Augustus during the time her husband Agamemnon was fighting in the Trojan. She had continued to play the role of her new found husband queen until her son Orestes killed her for the revenge of his father’s death. None of the siblings nor Clytemnestra thought that her own child would turn their back and kill her but neither did Agamemnon see it