The real purpose for Clytemnestra sending away her son was so that he may live with other people and forget about his real mother and father. Clytemnestra knew that she could not kill her husband while Orestes was around because the cycle of revenge would continue and it would be Orestes killing his own mother along with Aegisthus who was also plotting Agamemnon's death. Clytemnestra could have killed her son to end the cycle, but as a mother she did not have the heart to kill her son. Sending him away was the best way to try and end the cycle of vengeance, which does not prove successful in the end. .
On two accounts the Chorus wishes for the return of Orestes and that he may come right the wrong which has been committed in the noble house. "Oh, can Orestes live, be somewhere in sunlight still? Shall fate grown gracious ever bring him back again in strength of hand to overwhelm these murderers?"(1646-1648) He wants Orestes to find out about this and come back strong and kill these two murderers. The second time the chorus speaks of Orestes returning is when he speaks directly to Aegisthus. "Nevermore, if God's hand guiding brings Orestes home again."(1667) God shall guide him to this home and he will exact revenge on the both of them. Aegisthus is not worried about Orestes returning and we see this when he responds to the chorus. "Exiles feed on empty dreams of hope. I know it. I was one."(1668) He believes that Orestes will never return because he has been so far away from home for such a long time that it is unlikely that he will have any interest in returning. Aegisthus should have been the one to murder Agamemnon on behalf of his father. His father was supposed to kill his brother for making him eat his children, but he never got the chance so his oldest son Aegisthus had to kill the son of his father's brother. Aegisthus was once an exile and he never got the chance to kill Agamemnon.
Clytemnestra insists that she killed Agamemon in revenge for sacrificing their youngest daughter Iphigenia. ... Agamemon decided to sacrifice his youngest daughter Iphigenia to the Goddess of Hunting, and he and his troops continued forth to the battle of Troy. ...
Sophocles, a Greek playwright, wrote the tragedy Oedipus Rex and it is now considered the epitome of all tragedies. ... In the tragedy, Thebes is cursed with a plague which will only end if King Laius' murderer is apprehended and exiled from Thebes. ... Throughout the whole tragedy, dramatic irony is very evident. ... Oedipus' only desire in this tragedy is to finally put a stop to this plague, but instead becomes tormented with the reality of his actions. ... In Greek tragedies, the tragic truth is known by the audience, so irony must be apparent in every scene, as to heighten the d...
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Tragedy We see and hear about tragedy every day and we read about it in stories and plays. ... A frequent term used in tragedy is tragic flaw. ... We've witnessed a modern tragedy and read about classic Greek tragedies, and Shakespearean tragedies, and all the protagonists in tragedies have a tragic flaw that creates a predicament for the protagonist. ... These are simply the guidelines of a tragedy that Aristotle set forth for this kind of drama and they primarily make up the theory of what a tragedy should be. ... This tragedy isn't one in the...
Maybe all this applies to tragedies written during the time that Sophocles wrote Oedipus, but when Shakespeare wrote Othello and Hamlet he must have chosen to leave out some of these elements that make a "tragedy". ... How can one say that Oedipus has a mental illness having read the "tragedy"? ... Shakespearian tragedies utilize these villains to add greater dimension to the trgedy. ... Tragedy is a vague term that does not even come close to doing Shakespeare's works justice. ... "Tragedies", indeed, t not just "tragedies", that is the answer....
According to Aristotle, a tragedy is a form of theater that r... ... Tragedies all consist of a hero with one or more inescapable flaws, often several of the seven deadly sins. ... Now and then, we learn from tragedies as common people to avoid making the same errors the tragic heroes make. ... Greek tragedies were not written about common people. ... Antigone could not be a tragedy without Creon; Antigone herself doesn't make much of a tragic figure. ...
Classic Tragedy In the century after Sophocles, the philosopher Aristotle analyzed tragedy. ... What was once thought of as a tragedy is now merely a type of tragedy. Modern tragedies, although exhibiting elements of the classic Greek tragedies, have evolved into more broad and complex drama. ... The poem "Home Burial-, by Robert Frost, is tragedy in modern form as well. ... Instead, it is a poem about life's tragedies "it demonstrates how one tragedy can cause another to occur. ...
Therefore suggest that the future of story will be stormy, or be spoiled (Shakespeare's Stories: Tragedies. 1988, 6 - 7). ... Macbeth is Shakespeare's final tragedy; his flawless use of literary devices may even make Macbeth his finest tragedy. ...
Macbeth is a tragedy because we see this noble character fall into the temptation of evil and eventually capitulate fully to it. ... It is here that the tragedy of Macbeth really begins. ... Macbeth is a tragedy because it tracks the slow degradation of a noble spirit. ... It is this sympathy that well feel for this fallen hero that ultimately makes Macbeth a tragedy in the eyes of the audience. ...
