Essay About Euripides Plays And Ones Mother

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The Oresteia was a book based on morals, over right and
wrong. This is what Orestes was brought up against in court.
Was it right for him to seek revenge towards his fathers death or was
it wrong? Was it wrong for him to murder the killer, which in turn
was his uncle and mother? These questions are what need to be
answered.
My beliefs to murder one for anothers death isnt always
right, but there could be certain circumstances when this is justified.
Im not really sure if Orestes is guilty or not. I mean since he was
acting on what Apollo wanted him to do. I guess if I were back in
that time period, Orestes would be found innocent.
The reasons for this is, because this was what the gods
had commanded. It was forseen and fortold event. It began with
Cassandra telling the Chorus what will happen to Agamemon and her
once their inside the castle. The death and who would be doing the
murder.
Then Apollo telling Orestes that he must go and seek
justice for his fathers death. That ir he doesnt do it he will live an
awful life. That justice will set his family free from the torement that
has been going on for many years.
Orestes is put to the test by caring out Apollos word,
to have to kill ones mother would be the worst. This after all is the
person who gave one life, now to take hers away. The strength of
mind had to be strong.
After doing his deeds Orestes is then plagued by the
Furies, which believe that all wrongs must be punished. The Furies,
do not care that Apollo pushed to have this done, or that this was a
foresight, they only believe what they wanted. In the end jurers
were the ones who try Oretes on his actions. For this time period a
hand for an hand, an eye for an eye, were probably the just means.
I guess he is innocent of the crime put before him.
The play of Antigone who could see the over
exaggeration of Creons words. Family is sacred no matter what the
actions are at the time. Creon words took over beliefs of people and
the gods. In the end, he to was punished for what he sought out. To
punish Antigone for her beliefs was wrong. She was a victim to one
of greed and power. Creon had everything coming that he got, to lose
his son was in the end justification, to Creon and for Antigones
death.
Euripides plays were written to have a say against the
traditions of men. In the play Media he has her as a scorned woman,
trying to fight for her husbands love.
Medea being from a distant land, new of different
drugs, only because of different plants and animals from her land.
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