... performs such acts, because he knows it's not right to kill his own mother. Throughout this play it is evident that revenge and vengeance rule in Orestes' and his sister Electra's hearts. Electra feels that "[she and Orestes] are beggars now, as if [their] mother traded [them] away, [and] exchanged [them] for her mate, Aegisthus, her partner in [Agamemnon's] murder, " (Aeschylus 172 ... ). So while Orestes has to avenge his father's death, Electra seems to want to see her mother get what she deserves for abandoning her children and killing their father. Electra and Orestes are heavily in...

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