HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Aegisthus, Clytemnestra, Doublespeak
9 Feb 2017
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Orestes & the furies: orestes has a problem, he"s been away. Apollo tells him that if he fails to avenge his father, he will be punished by the furies. If blood is spilt in your family and you do not avenge that, the furies will destroy you. They are born out of the spilt blood of the family member: orestes must avenge his father"s murder, if he does avenge his father, he kills his mother, which means the rage demons would come after him again. It"s a lose/lose: he has this great decision to make now, orestes rejects aegisthus as his step-dad, aegisthus is gured as cowardly, he didn"t ght at troy, he killed the king through being devious. It urged her to send an offering to the tomb of. Agamemnon: she dreamed she gave birth to a snake, orestes says that the snake represents a man.
