Orestes have a great deal in common. Both the plays are set in a time when the society is going through transition. In Orestia gods are changing. Furies turn into Eumenides or the Pacified Ones. Social and political norms are changing. The old laws of revenge and retribution have to be re-established. Similarly Hamlet’s philosophical ideals no longer hold. Earl Showerman observes: “Hamlet and Orestes are perhaps even greater as tragic heroes because their dramas move through times of cultural liminality
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house of Atreus. Clytaemnestra is a character that can be mostly classified as evil as she killed a member of her family as well‚ however there are many differences in the two murders. Orestes was motivated by a God. Apollo convinced him to get revenge for his father; it was not a mere
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AGAMEMNON CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY AGAMEMNON‚ son of Atreus and King of Argos and Mycenae; Commander-in-Chief of the Greek armies in the War against Troy. CLYTEMNESTRA‚ daughter of Tyndareus‚ sister of Helen; wife to Agamemnon. AIGISTHOS‚ son of Thyestes‚ cousin and blood-enemy to Agamemnon lover to Clytemnestra. CASSANDRA‚ daughter of Priam‚ King of Troy‚ a prophetess; now slave to Agamemnon. A WATCHMAN. A HERALD. CHORUS of Argive Elders‚ faithful to AGAMEMNON. CHARACTERS MENTIONED IN
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resembles a modern day photograph. The expression on the faces of each character in this painting drew me in even more. I wanted to know more: Why? Who? What was about to happen? At first glance‚ it seemed as though the woman in the background‚ Clytemnestra the mother‚ is being disturbed. King Agamemnon‚ the man portrayed in the foreground‚ appears to be directing the soldier‚ Achilles‚ as he is about to strike. After reading the history behind the painting‚ I better understand the expressions shown
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his audience’s society. Electra gains power and influence throughout the play; Sophocles depicts both Electra and Clytemnestra as very strong-willed. Sophocles’ defining characteristic is presenting Electra as powerful as well as good and wise. With Clytemnestra dead and Aegisthus also about to die at her brother Orestes’ hands‚ Electra shows that her goal in the murder of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus is not simplistic vengeance or fury‚ but a release from the hatred she has harbored while remaining
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protagonist in the story. Next is Clytemnestra‚ the twin sister of Helen. Clytemnestra does not like Helen and was mean to her until she had to leave Sparta. She got married to an evil ruler by force when she had to leave Sparta. Another character is Ione‚ who takes care of Helen. Ione is Helen’s nurse and she watches Helen all the time. Next we have Castor and Polydeuces. They are Helen brothers and train with Helen in Sparta. They had to escort Helen and Clytemnestra to Clytemnestra’s wedding. They
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Cassandra was taken by Agamemnon as his concubine‚ Polyxena has been assigned to Achilles’ tomb as an attendant‚ Andromache to the son of Achilles‚ and she is going to Odysseus. Cassandra enters with a burning torch and prophesies Agamemnon’s wife‚ Clytemnestra‚ will murder both her and Agamemnon. Talthybius is disgusted at Cassandra’s words and tells Hecuba to get ready to go on Odysseus’ ship. Cassandra responds by saying Hecuba will die in what is left of Troy‚ and she will join her mother in the underworld
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“an eye for an eye” perspective‚ justice is vengeance and it sustains balance and fairness. When King Agamemnon returns home to Argos from the war in Troy‚ the herald begins to speak of his actions and how “He hoisted the pickaxe of Zeus who brings revenge‚ he dug Troy down‚ he worked her soil down‚ the shrines of her gods and the high altars‚ gone! –and the seed of her wide earth he ground to bits” (A 516-519) out of admiration. Agamemnon accomplishes a great feat by conquering Troy and is highly praised
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disturbing in play‚ since he is a vicious man so killed the previous king of Argos for the throne and marry the daughter‚ which is Clytemnestra. The other reasons are the sacrifices of Iphigenia to Artemis‚ and I just can’t conceive of killing his blood relative and in some point he didn’t even think a mercy to his daughter. Then another one is admiring the half sister of Clytemnestra‚ which is Helen. The last one is that having an affair to his concubine‚ Cassandra. I cannot imagine that returning to Argos
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Zeus Beginning around 700 B.C.‚ stories by Homer and other Greek poets told of the lives of powerful gods who involved themselves in human affairs. Supreme among these gods was Zeus‚ but to the Romans he was known as Jupiter. Zeus was the supreme god and ruler of Olympus. He was known by many titles: Lord of the Sky‚ the Cloud- gatherer‚ the Rain-god‚ and Zeus the Thunderer. All of which are the most popular names dating back to ancient Greek history and mythology. Zeus was the child of the
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