Muqadsa Bashir Research paper 31stjuly.2013 Vengeance and dramatic conflict; a comparative study of Electra and Orestes Abstract Much has been written about the themes‚ plot‚ characters and language of Greek tragedies; Electra and Orestes by Sophocles and Euripides respectively. But there is not much research so far on the core of the plays‚ “Vengeance” and also its connection with dramatic conflict and how it leads towards tragedy so
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considered as a tragic hero. First‚ she is an individual of noble stature; she is a daughter of Agamemnon‚ King of Mycenae‚ and Clytemnestra‚ which makes her a royalty. Second is‚ he/ she is not perfect‚ hence the tragic flaw or hamartia. Electra’s tragic flaw would be her emotions. She is too emotional; she is overwhelmed by her feelings of revenge to her mother and sadness by the death of her father. We can see how emotional she is‚ just like when she heard the news that her
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Clearly‚ one of the main themes in Sophocles’s tragedy Antigone is justice. Antigone herself seems to conflate justice with the will of the gods‚ asserting to Creon that there are “laws whose penalties [she] would not incur from the gods‚ through fear of any man’s temper.” (502-503) This is‚ of course‚ in reference to her belief that her deceased brother deserves a proper burial; funeral rites are often seen as intrinsically tied to religion. She even describes herself as “a criminal - but a religious
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Exam 2 PART I 1. The early Greek city-state was divided into four social classes and they were: eupatrids‚ agroikoi‚ demiourgoi and the slaves. Eupatrids (“sons of noble fathers”) are citizens with full legal and political rights; free adult men born legitimately of citizen of parents. They had the right to vote‚ be elected into office‚ bear arms‚ and the obligation to serve when at war. Agroikoi are the farmers‚ which had no formal political rights but full legal rights. Demiourgoi are the “public
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considered a “good” or noble character. TRANSITION‚ Character interaction is an important Aristotelian element‚ he emphasizes that these interactions must be between closely connected people. The tragedy’s climax in Electra occurs with the murder of Clytemnestra. This scene is Aristotelian in that it involves interactions between people who are closely connected.
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Leda can see all the good things that will happen to her children and the good that they will do‚ but with that she is also able to see the bad. One of her two daughters‚ Clytemnestras‚ was known for some unlikeable traits. She killed her husband after he returned from the 10 year Trojan war. Clytemnestras’ kids decided to get revenge for their father’s death and killed their mother. Another example of forseeing the future in a negative way would be the events that Helen caused. She cheated on her husband
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him in the river Styx‚ and forgot to immerse his heel as well. Agamemnon- Agamemnon was a king of Mycenae. He is the husband of Clytemnestra and brother to Menelaus.
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When they saw each other in the hallucinations‚ they instantly fell “in love”. The problem was‚ Helen was already taken by Menelaus. At their wedding‚ Paris showed up and him and Helen locked eyes. He stole her from Greece and sparked the Greek revenge
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that launched a thousand ships”( Roman and Greek Mythology A to Z ). Helen is the daughter of Zeus and Leda ‚ Zeus came to Leda and mated with her disguised as a swan and Helen was born from an egg. She was the sister of Castor‚ Polydeuces and Clytemnestra; Wife of Menelaus; lover to Paris and the reason of the Trojan War. It is noted that Helen is the daughter of Tyndareus and Zeus because Leda was believed to have had intercourse with Tyndareus and Zeus the night Helen was conceived. When Helen
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plays there is no mention of divine intervention and justice is not generally as honorable. The revenge is n Euripides is cynical about the gods power or will to intervene‚ so they never appear as physical characters in his stories and characters mention them less often. His archetypes are all petty‚ cowardly or excessively violent. Euripides ’s "Electra"‚ "Medea" and "Hecuba" all focus on wicked revenge in an immoral world to question whether or not the gods can or will influence mortal affairs.
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