Aeschylus Essay

In this essay I intend to discuss how Aeschylus presents Clytaemnestra in the Oresteia and how he marks the extent to which traits of Clytaemnestra's character remain defiantly unchanged as she manipulates events and characters around her. Clytaemnestra is the only character who appears in all three plays in the trilogy, but despite her immense stage presence she remains a troublesome character to interpret due to the highly ambiguous nature of her words. I intend to show that the key to unlocking

and Aegisthus by Apollo, “…if I failed to kill my father’s killers…….to kill the two of them as they killed him, in the same way. He said that otherwise I’d pay the debt with my own life, and it would be a life of torment that would never end” (Aeschylus, Liberation Bearers lines 307-313). He has this threat hanging over his head and any time he starts to waver, his friend Pylades, his sister, and the chorus encouraged him. “the third and last storm battering their house. In the end, Orestes does

didn’t have much of an authoritative voice in their home or society. Sophocles portrayed Antigone as depending on men in his tragedy Oedipus at Colonus, while Aeschylus broke the gender barrier and had Clytemnestra be a face of Agamemnon’s feminism. This difference in these women’s voices could possibly show how the Sophocles and Aeschylus felt about women in power at the time and/or merely just be to add to the plot. How women are portrayed in Agamemnon and Oedipus at Colonus shows the use of strong

from an ignorant mortal they become so ready to manipulate them for entertainment despite whether or not other people suffer in the process. The two Greek poets that I have chosen to write about will be Aeschylus and Sophocles. The two Roman poets that I I have chosen are Lucretius and Aeschylus writes a trilogy relating to Oedipus and his family. In the very beginning of Oedipus’ life story, his parents sought to find out what his fate would be and for advice. An oracle is someone who gets their

choral leader). According to Aristotle, a prominent Greek philosopher, tragedies consisted only of a chorus until Thespis created prologues and actor dialogue. Despite this, choral performances continued to constitute the majority of Greek theater. Aeschylus was the next to make a major change in the chorus. Under

4 Life Lessons From Aeschylus's Oresteia Greek tragedy contains valuable life advice. Revenge! Faster, Kill, Kill! Aeschylus (525-455 BC) retells a story first made popular by Homer. What develops in “Oresteia”’s three tragedies – “Agamemnon”, “The Libation Bearers” and “The Eumenides” could be the plot of “Revenge! Faster, kill, kill!”, but behind all this fun stuff philosophical questions peek out. Beyond the stories told in ancient tragedies, there are topics that were of interest and dispute

The plays were put on in festivals to celebrate the god Dionysus, the god of wine. Elements such as costumes and masks that were used in worship rituals to the gods influenced their costuming for the shows. There were three innovative playwrights Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and Sophocles who all had their own writing styles and contributed to the advancement of theatre in their own way. The Great Dionysia was a festival started by the tyrant Peisistratus that took place in Athens and started in the sixth

Ancient expectations for women include always putting the responsibilities of being a mother above all else, as shown in Euripides’ Medea and Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, as well as Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis. Both Clytemnestra and Medea exhibit motherly love and tend to those responsibilities, but commit atrocious, unladylike acts, which jeopardize the sympathy felt for them by an audience. The respective playwrights of each story use their character’s motivations and how they align with their roles

Have you ever acted out in retribution for something done to you? Some examples could be if you punched someone for intentionally kicking you, or if someone deliberately hurt the feelings of someone you love and you retaliated in kind. You probably thought the punishment you received for your actions was too harsh or lenient. Many factors went into the decision of what discipline you received for this act and some were fair while others probably were not. This is true for the actions of many people

Jordan Arnold Professor Wilder Blue Humanities 9/19/17 Prompt 3 In the tragedy of Agamemnon, both Clytemnestra and Cassandra have their opinions of Agamemnon. He has shown the type of King he truly is. Clytemnestra, his wife, has took action in her own hands when it came to dealing with Agamemnon. This resulted in his brutal death where he least expected it. Cassandra, priestess of Apollo, was cursed with gift of prophecy but no one will believe her. With that being said she knew things