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    Hoque, Zohirul Oresteia At the point when a person is blamed for a crime they are either discovered guilty or innocent. This is the fundamental thought of justice and it is the thing that people feel needs to happen on the off chance that somebody has done something dubious. In the play The Oresteia by Aeschylus, the tale of Clytemnestra guilt or innocents is addressed. She does numerous things that individuals are not very content with and those disputable activities all through the story; basically

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    Sophocles’ and Euripides’ versions of Electra carry, among many similarities, a central theme of revenge. The characters, Electra and Orestes, must reunite to avenge their father’s murder. Misfortunately, in both versions the just solution leads the siblings to destroying their own mother. Both versions of Electra can be compared to Aeschylus’ Libation Bearers. However, they are both more dramatic, and more similar to each other than if each Electra was individually compared to the play by

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    Importance of the Tutor in Electra

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    Importance of the Tutor in Electra When delving into a novel, drama or other character-based text, analysts often focus their search around the supposed "major characters" who seem to most directly affect the work. In considering Electra, however, just as valuable as Orestes, Clytemnestra or Electra herself is a somewhat minor character, the Tutor. This attendant of Orestes emerges only three times and is on stage for less than twenty percent of the spoken lines, yet his role in driving the

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    Vengeance in Electra, The Bacchae and Frankenstein      In today's world, vengeance is still in existence, bubbling below our calm facade, waiting for the catalyst it needs to break loose. Evidence can be seen right now in the reactions of the American people towards Bin Laden. He destroyed so many lives, and now, there is probably not one American that would not love to get their minute alone with him. The American people want to hurt him the way he and his followers hurt their fellow Americans

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    Agamemnon, she is viewed as haughty and despicable and everyone hates her for it. She walks out of the palace and starts talking about how her vengeance has been enacted and that it is justifiable. The chorus hears her and asks, “how you can swagger so over the butchered body of your husband” (Aeschylus, Agamemnon lines 1596-1597). They continue further saying”, Woman, what foul food nursed deep in the earth, or what drink drawn from the flowing sea could you have tasted to take on yourself so horrible

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    In The Oresteian Trilogy there is a very apparent theme of injustice throughout the plays. Injustice is unlawful or unethical acts that are not treated or punished the correct way. Integrity and fairness are what I believe have the most impact on the way a person will read and react to injustice. Integrity is the ability to be truthful and honorable to a set of morals that each person grows up to believe. Making a decision without having bias towards a side would considered fair. Clarkson, a prestigious

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    Henry walks into Jared and steals the most expensive ring for his girlfriend. He believes his actions are justified because he loves his girlfriend and thinks she deserves the best ring even if he can not afford it. Henry will be punished because all that concerns the storeowner is how much the ring costs him. However, what if, for some crazy reason unbeknown to the public, Henry was commissioned by the president of the United States to steal the most expensive ring for Henry’s girlfriend and threatened

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    trilogy for it is her actions that spark the debate between the Furies and Apollo over whether or not Orestes is just in committing matricide.  Where as Clytaemnestra breaks with female tradition, Electra is the preserver of the status quo.  Because Clytaemnestra is not motherly, Electra who has already lost her father to the depths of Hades, loses her mother to that one's all-consuming hate of Agamemnon as well. And so she seeks revenge towards her mother, the cause of all her misery in

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    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

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    Balance In The Oresteia

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    Through the three plays of The Oresteia, we are exposed to many opposing forces of power. Elements such as darkness, light, fate, patriarchy, and justice are intertwined to make up Aeschylus’ tragic tale, however all of these elements are directed by one central force: balance. The word balance itself suggests a state of equilibrium or a stable environment. Balance is often looked at as a scale; if one side of the scale is overpowering the other, then it creates a state of disorder, irregularity

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