Oresteia Essay

As the examples, the stories in Oresteia and Medea are used as the contradictions to the natural laws and the establishment of social justice. In The Libation Bearer, the second play of Oresteia, the divine’s oracle encourages Orestes to revenge his mother for his father’s death signifies the need for social justice beyond the “natural law” concerning bloodlines

One understated connection in many parts of Aeschylus’s "Oresteia" is the role and treatment of characters based on gender. Obviously, gender roles were much different in ancient times, but I find it very interesting of how it compares to modern times. In modern times, women play a very limited role in most stories, movies, and even society, which is proven by statistics. It is interesting to read about the role of women in the books of myth because not only is it similar to modern times, but also

A little over two thousand years and a few revolutions separate the writing of Aeschylus’ tragedy the Oresteia and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In terms of themes, they are remarkably similar - something purposefully done as Rowling litters her work with little literary jokes. While a several hour long Youtube documentary could surely list out all of the allusions and intertext that make up the Harry Potter novels, I mean to demonstrate a very specific, and rather troubling

The Transformation of Justice A cycle of murder and death spurs from the curse on the House of Atreus in Aeschylus’ The Oresteia but transforms from justice as vengeance to justice as fairness and forgiveness through the wisdom of Athena, establishing a new cycle of growth and life. The curse upon the House of Atreus was brought forth through the event of Zeus’ eagles devouring a pregnant hare which angered Artemis for she is the goddess of young animals and creatures. The big black bird swoops

The Interplay between Human Knowledge and Suffering Shiyun Zhu In The Oresteia and Oedipus the King, there are a lot of issues that deal with knowledge and suffering. In the two books, knowledge can be defined as intelligence, either the innate intellect or the intelligence gained afterwards. In The Oresteia, Clytemnestra suffers from the death of her daughter, Iphigenia, and then she is forced to learn how to design a wise and cunning plan to kill her husband due to her grief and anger. Although

The modern day movie adaption of Aeschylus’s tragedy, Oresteia, which is renamed as Voices, is set in present day New York. Similar to Agamemnon who was away from his family at war in Oresteia, in Voices, he is once again deployed to the Middle East for the War on Terror after the September 11th attacks. Although Agamemnon knows he is not obligated to fight, he feels it is his duty. Being away for a long period of time created tensions between Agamemnon and his wife, Clytemnestra, especially after

prevents them from getting too out of hand. There are three texts from seminar that demonstrate this idea of emotional power: The Aeneid by Virgil, The Oresteia by Aeschylus, and Sappho by Sappho. In The Aeneid, the text discusses Aeneas’ journey to Italy and the many encounters he had. It was in this text that the females displayed emotional power. The Oresteia is a play about murder, revenge, and justice within the royal family of Argos. Emotion is what drives this play

In a crime, a person is accused and shown as innocent or guilty. In this act, this is the simple ideas of justice, which many feel need to happen to someone who has done something contentious. In the play, “The Oresteia Trilogy by Aeschylus”, the first play “Agamemnon” has a female character known as Clytemnestra who causes great debate over her controversial actions that continue through the rest of the plays. In an examination, we will explore Clytemnestra’s case and build against her innocence

The three plays that compose Aeschylus’s Oresteia contains what seems like and ancestry of violence. The violence starts with Atreus, Agamemnon’s father, which puts a curse on the family. Then Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Orestes all commit murder which in their mind, is justified. Ironically, this play addresses their “justified” acts of murder when Athena states, “You wish to be righteous rather than act right…”; here, Athena is addressing the Fury, but this statement applies to all of the characters

The Oresteia and Oedipus Trilogy have characters that either emotionally engage you to feel sympathy and sorrow while they go through troubles or make you want to detest them on basis of their character. The character that tugs at your heart strings the most between these works is Antigone. The character between the Oresteia and the Oedipus trilogy that evokes contempt rather than sympathy is Clytemnestra. Antigone is a tragic character whose fathers’ curse compounds itself on the city and her family