Vengeance in the Orestia
Vengeance plays an important role in the Oresteia trilogy as well as in the everyday system of justice in Greece at the time these plays were written. As we see in the Oresteia, every killer believes that he or she is righteous in their act as in their minds they are acting to correct a past wrongdoing against them or their family. Even the ones who are committed to ending the viscous cycle of death in the House of Atreus only end up persisting it. With all the murders in the House of Atreus, who was really righteous in their act? Well, if you ask any of the killers, they all were. Clytemnesta claims that her murder of Agamemnon is due justice for the killing of her daughter Iphigeneia by Agamemnon (Ag. 1431-1433) and even gets angry at the Chorus for suggesting that she committed an act of evil and that Agamemnon was righteous in his. Aegisthus proclaims that his part in the death of Agamemnon is justified by the act of Agamemnon father Atreus cooking and serving his brother’s, Aegisthus’ father Thyestes’, children to him (Ag. 1578-1582). Finally, in the Libation Bearers, Orestes tells his sister Electra that he has been given a divine order by Apollo to murder his mother for the death of their father, Agamemnon, o
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Aegisthus LB, Orestes Athena, Bearers Orestes, Pallas Athena, Atreus Ag, Death Wish, Agamemnon Ag, , Furies LB, House Atreus, system justice, house atreus, orestes act, act bring, death wish, die hard, revenge murder, viscous cycle, libation bearers, clytemnestra aegisthus,
Approximate Word count = 1051
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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