Comparing Sophocles 'Electra And Bearers'

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In the Sophocles play Electra, the character of Electra is more involved and stronger. Orestes is on his way back to Mycenae and plots revenge for his father death. While Orestes is travelling back Electra is seen arguing with Chrysothemis about her accommodation with their father’s murders. Electra is still enraged about her father’s murder; she resents her mother and wants Orestes to avenge Agamemnon. When Orestes arrives at the palace no one recognizes him, a messenger then announces that Orestes as died, upon this knowledge Electra is devastated. Her sister Chrysothemis tells Electra that she has seen Orestes lock of hair on Agamemnon burial site. Electra dismisses this and proposes that she and Chrysothemis are now responsible for avenges …show more content…

While Orestes hides he watches Electra mourn her fathers murder. Electra is more involved in the beginning of this play rather than the end. Not only is Electra mourning the loss of her father she is also infuriated by the treatment of her mother. Electra appeals to the sprit of The Fury and Agamemnon. Electra’s motivation for revenge is based upon her father’s death but also because she has been deprived of love, wealth, and marriage. Clytemnestra has reduced Electra’s status to a slave woman because she wants Aegisthus children to inherit power not Agamemnon’s children. Electra believes that what she is entitled to is being taken away from her. She is around seventeen years old, which is far older than most women are when they marry. Electra blames Clytemnestra for denying her of her rightful privileges as the daughter of a queen and king. While Electra laments her father death she notices a lock of hair on his grave, she identifies this as Orestes hair. The two siblings plan to avenge their father. Electra convinces and encourages Orestes to go along with his plan to avenge their father. In this play Electra’s main purpose is to persuade and convince Orestes fulfill his duty. She sets up the raw emotion felt by herself and Orestes and why this must be done. Electra wants revenge for Agamemnon and is driven by the

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