The first play, Agamemnon, introduces us to Clytaemnestra who murders her husband because Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter. Agamemnon murders his daughter in order to satisfy her to the gods, Clytaemnestra kills her husband to achieve, and she says, “a masterpiece of Justice”. (Pg. 162, line 1430) Here it appears that revenge is the bottom line making another person pay for his actions and bringing justice to all. Altho

The world within the plays of Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides seems just to the people who live in it because this is how they handle all situations that arise, but from an outsiders view, their world is very far from being just. It is not right for people to go around killing others for his or her own reasons because they believe it to be just. The interesting part of these plays is the fact that readers are able to experience the first sign of the characters trying to deal with situations in a just way. In the last play, The Eumenides, the reader witnesses a trial that Athena holds for Orestes and the furies. The trial was very similar to today’s trials, “The trial begins! Yours is the first word – the prosecution opens. Start to finish, set the facts before us, make them clear,” (Pg. 256, line 588-590) this is how the judges start off cases in today’s courts. The trial that is held shows a step towards a just world. They are moving to a more civil way of living.

We see a similar situation with Orestes’. After being banished and sent into exile from his homeland, Orestes comes back to bring his father’s murderers to justice. Orestes sees things the same way as his mother does in Agamemnon. An oracle tells Orestes that the only way for his father’s killers to be brought to justice is for him to kill his mother and her lover, Aegisthus. “Apollo will never fail me, no, his tremendous power, his oracle charges me to see this trial through…’Gore them like a bull!’ he called, ‘or pay their debt with your own life, one long career of grief.’”(Pg. 191, line 272-281). Orestes murders his mother and Aegisthus due to the oracle and seems to gain justice for the death of his father. One can debate as to whether he is justified in his actions. Not only is it in his thoughts to make things right, he has also received word from the god, Apollo, that this is what needs to be done. It makes readers wonder if t

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