Sophocles 'Electra'

The main attraction for myself was the non-evident combined aria and recitative in the production. In most opera there is an aria, or overflow of melody following the recitative. This helps express the appropriate feelings needed for the audience to grasp the key aspects of the opera. Also, it helps bring the plot to a halt and the characters then are able to reflect upon what is occurring in the story. Puccini was much more concerned with his librettos and would rather use the same material in each of his acts. At the conclusion of many songs I caught myself wanting to stand to my

I was much more fond of the symphony music played by Mozart, although there was not much featured in the movie. I am not a big fan of Opera’s to begin with, so I am a little biased when judging them. I found Don Giovanni and the Opera written alongside Salieri more preferential; there was more substance and feeling in those. The opera Figaro to be extremely boring; apparently so did Joseph II. It was extremely slow with the same dark melody the whole piece. I most enjoyed the first Opera commissioned by Emperor Joseph II. The whole piece was brilliantly put together, I can’t imagine how someone could put all those notes together and make is sound like it did. It reminds me of listening to Jimi Hendrix on the guitar, or Bach on the Harpsichord.

Sarah Ruhl’s play, Eurydice, is a devastating story battling love, grief, life, and death. Although it is set during the 1950’s, the play manages to encompass the ancient Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus. The three most evident themes of this play are recurring death, fleeting happiness, and the power of love. The main conflict in this play is ultimately about the painful choice that comes with death; this is often caused by the King of the Underworld. One of the most impressive parts of this play is the ability to change the way the play is perceived through design.

Many people believe that fate has planned out their lives and despite efforts on their part what was meant to happen, will eventually happen. This belief has been handed down over the centuries from some of the first civilizations, such as the Greeks. However, not all Greek citizens wanted destiny to take control of their lives. Some decided to choose freewill over the will of the gods. In Oedipus the King, Sophocles writes a cautionary tale meant to warn the doubters in Greek society that regardless of their beliefs in gods and prophecies, it is necessary to heed their warnings. Oedipus, Jocasta, and Laius are Sophocles’ characters that prove that escaping one’s fate is not possible, as each of their predicted fates is realized despite extensive efforts to thwart them.

The bad actions of Clytemnestra are immediately seen in a negative way but she, at first, has avenged her daughter’s murder. What the chorus thinks of her is that she is an imposing figure, she is not noble and her information is unreliable. She is kind of underestimated and misjudged. She is presented as the bad woman but it is clear that the aim of Clytemnestra is taking her revenge. Aeschylus’ portrait of Clytemnestra can be seen as negative and positive; on one hand she seeks justice for her daughter, on the other she is completely incurable for the act of murder. She does not hide from her actions, instead she freely admits her murder and embraces the power and authority. It is through the inversion of traditional gender roles, adopting masculine speech, behaviors and activities, that she achieves her revenge for the sacrifice of Iphigenia. On one hand Clytemnestra’s revenge may have been seen as an upsetting act but on the other hand it let people (the audience) reflect on the traditional gender role of women in society. The power of Clytemnestra can be also seen through the chorus speech. It highlights her authority even if the chorus

The second article I chose was “The Escalation of Conflict in Sophocles” by Melvin R. Lansky. While reading the article I learned that Oedipus actually means swollen foot. This article also has some comparison between Creon and Antigone. It mentions how both Creon and Antigone feel like they are being insulted and diminished. Afterwards they act by returning the shame to one another in contradiction. The author believes that the focus of the drama is the shame conflict that is drawn from both of them. Creon wanting loyalty and honor of the family and Antigone to her family. What I find ironic is that Creon and Antigone are kind of in the same family being Creon’s niece and Haemon’s fiancée. Antigone feels the need to burry her brother to keep

Euripides and Sophocles wrote powerful tragedies that remain influential to this day. The vast majority of work recovered from this time is by male authorship. What remains about women of this time is written through the lens of male authors’ perspective and beliefs about the role of women in Greek culture. The works of these two playwrights frequently characterize women as unstable and dangerous. Agave, Antigone, and Medea are all undoubtedly the driving force behind the tragic action in these plays. It is their choices that lead to the pain and death of the people around them. Through an examination of the evidence from three separate works, Antigone, The Bacchae, and The Medea, the role of women in ancient Greek tragedy becomes clear. The actions of Agave, Antigone, and Medea repeatedly prove their characters instability and danger.

Medea by Euripides, written in the B.C’s mirrors the conditions and problematic circumstances of Greek women and how one brave lady, Medea broke through this ongoing custom and narrates her story from the beginning to the revealing end, whereby through the course of the drama we get a justification of why she does such psychopathic deeds during the course of the play. This essay I am writing echoes how effectively Euripides advocates the beginning with a well planned ending, with the help of a successful running plot and adequately placed subtle hints from minor characters such as the nurse and tone of Medea’s monologue. Also in the beginning we are introduced with a justification of Medea’s

Abandonment’s Effect on Orge in Sophocles’ Elektra, lines 1026-1048 Most of today’s society is well-aware of our five stages of grief; we watch character and close friends sift through denial, anger, bargaining, depression and ultimately, acceptance. It’s common to find people stuck in a stage, unwilling to or unable to let past events continue to affect their present state of mind. Modern reader’s can find a similar system in Greek tragedies, perhaps with a bit more punch, and there is no play where this is clearer than Sophocles’ Elektra. Elektra’s character dominates the page and the plot, driving characters to their destinies with fervor comparable to Fast & Furious.

Sophocles was a greek dramatic. Did you know that he was famous for doing one hundred and twenty three dramas, Also because he was the most celebrated writers. Sophocles suffered by people who brought on shelves. Tragedy dealt with love,loss,pride the abuse of power and the fraught relationships between man and gods. Sophocles was born in four hundred and ninety six B.C. his parent were sophilus,and jocasta.

Paul Woodruff’s translation of the Greek play Euripides Bacchae tells the story of the primary character Dionysus, who is the son of the Greek God Zeus. Dionysus is out to seek his revenge on his mother’s sisters, his grandfather Cadmus, and also his cousin Pentheus because they have denied that he, Dionysus was born a God. Also important in this play is Pentheus who was made King of Thebes as a young teenage boy by his grandfather who is also Cadmus. Pentheus learns of Dionysus trying to change order in Thebes and Pentheus is determined to stop this form happening at all costs.

Amongst Euripides' most famous plays, Medea went against the audience's expectations at his time. Indeed, the main character of the play is Medea, a strong independent female who neglected moral and . She was therefore in all ways different to how women were perceived in Ancient Greece. This essay will explore how Euripides' controversial characters demonstrate that his views were ahead of his time.

I think that the performer’s ability was appropriate for their location and for their audience because the tone quality of the musicians sounded very rich and clean. When I listened to the performance, I was able to hear all of the different parts of the piece clearly, which has made me much more conscious of the balance and dynamics of each phrase when I play. The texture of the pieces played was very rich and full because an orchestral piece is designed to have a good balance of instruments and good range of frequencies of sound that has lots of different things happening at the same time.

No longer was the orchestra the main component to listen to when attending an opera. Librettists and composers worked extremely close to get the right feel for arias and other pieces in the story.

Electra is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides. It tells the story of Electra and her brother Orestes. The play tells the tale of how they reunite after several years (maybe eight) of being apart and consult how to revenge their father after their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus murder their father, Agamemnon. Electra was written late in Euripides’ career, sometime between 410s and 420s BCE, although the actual date is uncertain since Sophocles also wrote his version of Electra and it is unclear whether it was first produced before or after Sophocles’ version of the Electra story. But it is certain it came 40 years after Aeschylus’ “The Libation Bearers” which was part of his ever popular “Oresteia” trilogy, whose