Orestes An Innocent Hero Essay

claims four requirements for the tragic hero. The hero must be good. The hero must have appropriate quality of his or her gender and class. The hero must be true to life. Lastly, the hero must be consistent. These four characteristics are present in many tragic heroes. However, there are so many different authors with different interpretations of the tragic hero, that to define the tragic hero with merely four traits is not plausible. Aristotle defines the tragic hero in a way too simple manner. Aristotle’s

girl of tears./Act for act, wound for wound!” (Agamemnon, lines 1552-1555). While his wife Clytemnestra has to choose between the two evils of avenging her slain daughter or allowing her husband to live. However, Agamemnon and Clytemnestra’s son Orestes whose choice is between matricide and avenging the death of his father: “As she bred this sign, this violent prodigy/ so she dies by violence. I turn serpent,/ I kill her. So the vision

THE BRITISH ACADEMY THE ANNUAL SHAKESPEARE LECTURE 1914 Hamlet and Orestes A Study in Traditional Types By Gilbert Murray, LL.D., D.Litt. Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford Fellow of the Academy New York Oxford University Press American Branch 35 West 32nd Street London : Humphrey Milford THE BRITISH ACADEMY THE ANNUAL SHAKESPEARE LECTURE 1914 Hamlet and Orestes A Study in Traditional Types By Gilbert Murray, LL.D., D

Agamemnon and Aegisthus perpetuate their father’s infections” – Agamemnon by the slaughter of innocents and Aegisthus by the adultery with Clytemnestra (Pindar 258). The Libation Bearers speaks of the remaining children of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, Orestes and Electra, who (with some urging from Apollo) avenge the death of their father by killing both Aegisthus and their own mother. The Furies, enraged by Orestes’ violation of the filial bond, pursue his punishment. The Eumenides covers the taming of

Having nowhere else to run Orestes sought refuge in the temple of Apollo. It fell upon Apollo to aid Orestes in his time of need because he encouraged him. “I’ll not leave you—no, I’ll stand beside you, your protector till the end. Close at hand or far away, I’ll show no gentleness towards your enemies.” Apollo not willing to give up Orestes, the case was taken to trial. Orestes being the defendant on a murder in a tailed located in Athens. The case is

The Aeschylus Trilogy and Sweat by Lynn Nottage, though written thousands of years apart, actually share the same underlying problems especially when it comes the the characters that drive the plot. In both plays, there is this very prominent character trait found in most, if not all, the characters, selfishness. These self centered characters actually create conflict simply by only thinking of themselves. The self-centered and selfish air in both time periods, whether brought up by individual characters

“Megara’s story set the paradigm of Hera intervening in Hercules’ life when things were going best for him and destroying his happiness.” She destroyed what life Hercules could have had with his wife and kids. She’s seen in many of the plays as the innocent who was caught between differing powers. Megara’s Homeric values weren’t too difficult to figure out. Of course she was seen as Geras, an award/prize. She was given to Hercules as an award for helping Creon regain his kingdom back from the Minyans

Marianna Baggett CLAS 131 Essay #2 14 November 2013 Gender and Justice Throughout Orestia The trilogy of Orestia illustrates the many tragedies that fall upon the House of Atreus and how different characters’ reactions cause further tragedies and further complications in the story. Gender is a prominent theme throughout the trilogy, as certain characters are portrayed as gender characteristics outside of their gender stereotype, and the different genders plea for different verdicts in the trial

(86:799-802) yet the sexual jealousy that encompasses her drives her to revenge. It is clear that Jason must suffer for his actions yet the innocent slaughter of the foolish king and his pure daughter portray her as a wicked spiteful creature. She seems to be driven by a value system that is inconsistent with that of the tragedies i.e. the beliefs of an epic hero. But in the world of tragedy, epic has no place and we see the nurse trying to wish away its existence.

Part One: The story of The Cyclops Polyphemus was the most intriguing story in the first part for me. In the story, Odysseus and his crew ventured inside the home of a cyclop named Polyphemus, which was built inside of a cave. When Polyphemus came home, he found the crew and immediately killed and ate one of the men. As Polyphemus shut the door, Odysseus and his men were trapped inside the cave. During the next day, Odysseus and his men took a piece of timber from Polyphemus’ house and sharpened