... dead father's tomb. To her surprise, her younger brother Orestes, has returned. She is happy, yet she isn't entirely convinced that she should submit to the comfort of his return. Electra asks her brother Orestes if it is "...a trap...a net you tie around me?" (L.B. 220). Of course it isn't a net being tied around her, but there is another referral to hunting ... of humans here. Electra is afraid of the hunting net, and afraid to be trapped by a hunting net...one of false hope and happiness. She has been awaiting her young brother's return so together ... avenge the murder of their fat...

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... than 100 plays, of which 7 complete tragedies and fragments of 80 or 90 others are preserved. The seven extant plays are Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus or Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King), Electra, Ajax, Trachiniae (Maidens of Trachis), Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus (produced posthumously in 401 BC). Also preserved is a large fragment of the Ichneutae (Investigators), a satiric drama discovered on papyrus in ... of the 20th century. Of the surviving tragedies the earliest is thought to be Ajax (circa 451-444 BC). Next probably are Antigone and Trachiniae (after 441). Oedipus Tyrannus an...

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