Orestes

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Aegisthus, Clytemnestra's lover and co-conspirator, insists that Electra must accept the fake news because Orestes, upon liberation from the camp, will return and will find a situation in which the lie has been normalized.

(8) In Sophocless Electra, convinced that the body lying in front of him is Orestes's--while it is the just murdered Clytemnestra's--Aegisthus declares that it should serve as a warning to those who are still unwilling to accept his "[phrase omitted]" (bridle; see 1460-63).

(3.) Orestes Brownson, "Bishop Hopkins on Novelties," in The Works of Orestes Brownson, (Detroit: H.

The fierce and violent finale has led some critics to interpret the Orestes not as a celebration of true friendship so much as a demonstration of its perversion, when people are willing to do absolutely anything, however outrageous, for friends: a sign more of the distorted bond that gives rise to factions than of honest solidarity.

In her opening scene, her cries of "Agamemnon" are chilling, and her recognition scene with Orestes is gripping at every turn.

FROM: ORESTES BROWNSON, "QUARTERLY REVIEW FOR JANUARY 1873"

This text is a collection of the Ancient Greek dramatist Euripides' three plays that involve Orestes: Electra, Iphigenia Among the Tauri, and Orestes.

Hugo von Hofinannsthal's text is a tale of revenge, a retelling of the ancient Orestes legend that focuses on Orestes' sister Electra and the twisted and ultimately fatal family romance that arises out of the murder of their father King Agamemnon by their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.