Electra Essay

lover. Orestes plans on getting revenge for his father’s death by the command of Apollo. He hears Electra, his sister, crying; however, he ignores her due to his focus being solely on revenge. Electra has been held captive by her mother and Aegisthus—her mother’s lover—since the death of her father. She has mourned Agamemnon’s death for years. The Chorus of women act as a voice of reason for Electra, questioning why she has mourned for so long. Her response is that she has been abused and no one

The two plays I chose to write about are “Antigone” and “Electra” both written by Sophocles. The reason I chose these two play in particular is because they both have very strong female characters that just so happen to go against the grain of what normal women were expected to act like in their time period. Both stories center around the wrongful death of a loved one, and the womens reaction to said death. Upon the discovery of the loved ones deaths, both characters went out of their way to not

In her second album, Electra Heart, she wanted to focus on the classic American stereotypes and their hidden flaws. She targeted four main stereotypes: the homewrecker, the housewife, the idle teen, and the primadonna, all of which made up her alter ego, Electra Heart. The inside of the box itself represents Electra Heart as a whole. The broken mirror represents vanity to depict the primadonna archetype and Diamandis’ inner struggle with self-esteem and confidence. The clock represents the housewife

The “Crazy World of Electra Brown” series written by Helen Bailey is collection of novels aimed at the teenage crowd (the series is considered children 's fiction and young adult fiction). It centers around main character Electra Brown. Electra Brown is a bit shallow. She only likes certain kinds of boys (handsome and popular) and feels that others are ripe to be picked on. Her dad cheats on her mom with someone else, and he winds up moving in with the other woman. Electra, at one point, decides

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

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can be beneficial. Comparing the concepts in Sophocles' Electra to Gilligan's Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic of Justice and the reasons behind it unfold. Understanding the concepts of justice and punishment, shame and honor, death of self, the death sentence, love, language and violence, gender-based violence, and how they affect killers may give insight into why violent actions are committed. Sophocles' dramatic tragedy Electra dives into revenge and the ancient Greek "blood for blood"

Sophocles’s Electra focuses mainly on the justifications of some actions, Sophocles sees justice as the most important thing that leads to the actions of others. Herodotus is nearly the exact opposite. He seems to not see any importance with justice, within The Histories he shows that the most important thing when writing is showing what caused certain events to happen, as well as evidence to both sides of the story, allowing the reader to decide what really happened. Although these two texts and

Even to the point where Electra manages to Show herself as victim in order to carry out her revenge. 4. p. 388 To understand this excerpt we first have to look to the myth of Danae. She was the daughter of King Acrisius. And Acrisius was unhappy because of the lack of his male

someone she cares for and empathizes with despite the reasoning behind her imprisonment. After a period of time, love, virtue and a transformation of the heart will lead to a lifetime of happiness. Beauty in this story is a perfect example of Freud’s Electra complex. The female version of the Oedipal complex, where the female is in competition with her mother for possession of the father. Beauty’s mother is not accounted for in the story, so there is a definite “daddy’s girl” affect on the relationship