... 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 ... killed his own father gives him more confidence to go ahead with killing his mother because it seems the right thing to do, especially for his father. In Orestes eyes his mother is a murderer, "You are the murderer, not I - and you will kill yourself."(Pg. 218, line 910). His mother deserves everything ... she gets...

• Word Count: 1328
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... , the first play, Clytemnestra kills the King brutally, heartlessly, inspired by her angry, vengeful nature, her lust for power, and, quite probably, the hellish Furies. In The Libation Bearers, however, Orestes? actions, while they are still partially motivated by revenge, are also instructed by the god Apollo. After all, he does not actually go to kill his mother until after he ... shrill prophecies?/?foretold storms of suffering if I did not avenge my father's killers. (L.B. 269-273) Finally, in The Furies, a jury of the wisest citizens of Athens decides the fate of Orestes. This time...

• Word Count: 1317
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School