CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Aegisthus, Exemplum, Oresteia
1 Nov 2016
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Tragedy tragic = pertaining to tragedy as a genre. How a hero would t into contemporary life (hint: not well) Tragedy hows the downfall of the hero/ of royalty. Trying to conduct themselves in a democratic way. The actors try not to move too much on stage to be able to project. We only see big movement when the actors want to show big actions (agamemnon walking onto the carpet) Cassandra doesn"t listen to clytemnestra when she asks her to get out of the chariot. She can predict and see visions of the future. She tries to speak but it"s hard when she see"s everything at once, the past, and the future. She see"s the death of agamemnon and herself. The chorus (the old men) does not understand what she is babbling on about or trying to say. Cassandra takes the veil (of her priestess position) and she throws it off.
