Orestes then enters the scene and walks by and overhears the talking. ... They greet each other and Orestes starts explaining about everything has happened since his time away. ... As the night dawns, Orestes is approached by a messenger that his father has been found murdered. ... Orestes then strikes down and kills Aegisthus first then turns his attention to his mother. ... The denouement is a conversation between Orestes and Electra with Electra stating that while Orestes did in fact avenge their father's death, killing their mother is also an act despised by the gods and that now hi...

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"Oh, can Orestes live, be somewhere in sunlight still? ... "Nevermore, if God's hand guiding brings Orestes home again... Orestes goes to the home of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus and pretends to be a regular peasant. ... Orestes tells them that he bears a message saying that Orestes has died. ... The only one that could avenge Agamemnon's death was Orestes and now he is dead. ...

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In the play Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O"Neal, certain elements in the play give parallels to Greek Mythology. The story that best proves this idea is the story of Agamemnon and his wife Clytemestra and their doomed marriage that ends in an affair and murder. It was dramatic ...

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The source of the conflict was the murder of Clytaemnestra by her son Orestes. ... He is charged by the Furies for helping Orestes to murder his own mother because Apollo is more connected to patriarchy. ... When given the power to call the Verdict in Orestes trial, she feels that it is "too large a matter for mortal men to judge," (485). ...

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