Interesting conclusion to this play, but I cant say I didn’t see this coming. The cycle of bloodshed will continue to till justice is met. I really don’t know when that will happen since everyone in the play is getting revenge in the name of justice and that the divine gods ordered such things to happen. Now what confuses me a bit is when and where do the gods give permission for justice to be served. Clytemnestra and Orestes, even Agamemnon say the gods approve of such killings, but I don’t see a direct dialogue between the gods and these individuals or am I just supposed to know that and if so, why are they meeting their fates after doing what the gods “approve” of.
Orestes and Clytemnestra are truly mother and son.
The furies were seen by Orestes and that is a sign of his guilty conscious. It was sensed that it wasn’t right for him to murder his mother. When Clytamnestra hears her son is alive and is coming after her, she requests the axe so she can kill him before he gets her, but when he approaches her when Clytamnestra tries to convince her son not to kill her; she nearly persuades him, but Pylades convinces Orestes that the oracle must be obeyed. Clytamnestra was warning her son that if he kills her the curse will fall upon him. Now as I think about it, was she only trying to protect her own behind or was she really trying to save her son from the curse.
The way the play is left off is very interesting, but any good tragedy must have this kind of twist on
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