In the trilogy Oresteia, the issues concerned are the transformation from vengeance to law, from chaos to peace, from dependence to independence, and from old to new. These four significant changes all take place throughout the play and are somewhat parallel to the transformations that were going on in Ancient Greece. In Aeschylus" trilogy, the Greeks" justice system went through a transformation from old to new ways. In the beginning of the trilogy, the characters settle their matters, both personal and professional, with vengeance. Vengeance is when someone is harmed or killed, and either the victim, or someone close to them takes revenge on the criminal. This matter is proven in the trilogy numerous times. For example, Clytemnestra murders Agamemnon as revenge for his sacrifice of their daughter Iphigeneia. Along those same lines, in the second part of the trilogy, Choephoroe, Orestes, who is Agamemnon son, murders Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. He does this in order to gain revenge on them for killing his father. It was by this way that people would deal with conflict, and it was thought to be not only a justice system, but also a honorable and fair. In fact, one of the principal purposes of the first play of the trilogy is to force us to recognize that justice based on revenge creates special difficulties, which in turn cannot be solved. It does not solve the problems that it is meant to, but only causes more problems that are even larger. As the third and last part of the trilogy begins, the system begins to evolve and change from vengeance to genuine justice. Instead of getting revenge on Orestes and killing him, they decide to put him on trial and have a jury decide whether or not he should be put to death. Although the jury ends up in a tie, and Athena has the final say in the matter, it still shows that the justice system has evolved and transformed as the book moves along. Another way that transformation is shown in the trilogy is the way that it goes from chaos to harmony.
The Oresteia When I began to read the Oresteia, I have to admit I thought it was going to be another boring Greek mythical story. ... Bullard-3 Through out the Oresteia, I got a great feel of greed, desire, death, power but the main turning point was when night became day, when dark became light. ...
Among these are the Parthenon and the Oresteia. ... The Parthenon and the Oresteia act as tributes to the democracy that inspired their creation. ... The degree of power wielded by the governing bodies is depicted in the Oresteia. ... In the Oresteia, she is credited with establishing the Athenian legal system and allowing democracy to flourish. ... For instance, the motivations for murder in the successive plays in the Oresteia trilogy reflect a progression from chaos to order. ...
In The Oresteia, after Orestes is bidden by the god Apollo to kill his mother, the gods known as the Furies sentence him to be haunted. ... While most punishment today for murder is jail or execution, the concept of The Oresteia is what occurs if a person goes unpunished by society, which is the approach that I will henceforth take. The ultimate goal of The Oresteia is to apply what are primarily our views of right and wrong to a given circumstance, and see if, in that given circumstance, a fundamentally wrong act is actually justifiable and therefore perhaps, even, right. ... The story Th...
In "The Oresteia" justice works much differently, where there are no judges or a court system to resolve disputes, instead there is revenge. ... Aeschylus' Oresteia focuses on revenge as justice, with the old system that no longer works and that someone must fix, and a new system that has many advantages. ... The person who is most impartial in the Oresteia is the wise goddess Athena.Though not the top god was able to decide what should be done with Orestes very swiftly. ...
Grapes of Wrath, Oresteia, Things Fall Apart, 1984, all written to achieve a certain purpose. ... Some believe Aeschylus was forced to write the Oresteia by an angry mob of young radicals. ... He was forced under dagger to write the Oresteia. ... Also, did you ever think the Oresteia was a ploy? ... Whatever the intent of the Oresteia was, it was a very bad bad bad bad one. ...
In the Oresteia, what is normally the hunt of animals for the consumption and survival of human beings is combined with war also, resulting in negative connotations to the word. ... With overall images of a hunt and sacrifice in progression, the underlying tone of hunting is a bit clearer to the readers of the Oresteia. ... The second part of the Oresteia, the Libation Bearers, begins with the only remaining daughter of Agamemnon offering various goodies to her dead father's tomb. ... In the last part of the Oresteia trilogy, the Eumenides, Aeschylus again has dense references to the h...
Aeschylus produced his great trilogy, "The Oresteia". The Oresteia was said to perfect the vision of warning and reward, which in other words also can be thought of as betrayal and revenge. The Oresteia originally consisted of four plays-Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Euminides and Proteus. ... As it also explains in "The Oresteia"; "He (Orestes) must recognize, in fact, that his revenge is just, but that justice takes the form of matricide, the greatest form of guilt." As read in the Oresteia it seems as though the crimes committed, only seen between family members, could be contagious...
This piece of literature, Oresteia, tends to focus on the simple question "Why Orestes is declared innocent?"" While all the different forms of violence propagated by Orestes, shows that there is a need to alter the justice system, it is not clear whether carrying out a trial is the legitimate appro...
