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| Character | Electra | |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | Female | |
| Age Range(s) | Young Adult (20-35) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Angry, Scolding, Persuasive, Depressed, Lamenting, Complaining, Frustrated | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Period | Ancient Greek | |
| Genre | Tragedy, Drama | |
| Description | Electra scolds her sister Chrysothermis | |
| Location | Scene 3 | |
Summary
The play has the same setting and theme as Aeschylus' "The Libation Bearers". The background of the story is that Agamemnon, king of Argos, has been killed along with his mistress Cassandra, by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. By doing so Clytemnestra avenges the death of her daughter by Agamemnon, who had sacrificed her to the gods during the Trojan war.
Electra is Clytemnestra's daughter. She, along with her brother Orestes, carry out a plot to kill their mother and her lover to avenge their father's death.
In the first scene Orestes arrives at Argos with his tutor and his friend Pylades with the plan to announce that Orestes has died. In this scene we find Electra lamenting her father's death, at first by herself then to the Chorus. Her sister Chrysothermis urges her to stop mourning their father's death and obey their mother.
In this monologue Electra scolds her sister for having forgotten their father and having taken their mother's side.
Electra is Clytemnestra's daughter. She, along with her brother Orestes, carry out a plot to kill their mother and her lover to avenge their father's death.
In the first scene Orestes arrives at Argos with his tutor and his friend Pylades with the plan to announce that Orestes has died. In this scene we find Electra lamenting her father's death, at first by herself then to the Chorus. Her sister Chrysothermis urges her to stop mourning their father's death and obey their mother.
In this monologue Electra scolds her sister for having forgotten their father and having taken their mother's side.
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| ELECTRA: Well, it is strange that you, being his child Who was your sire, should have regard for her, Your mother, and have quite forgotten him! All this good counsel you bestow on me Is of her teaching; and of your own self You can say nothing. Therefore take your choice; Either to be of evil mind, or else Well minded to forget those dear to you; Who said but now, if you could get the power, You would show plain the hate you have for them; And yet, while I am doing everything To avenge our father, do not take your part, And seek to turn me from it, who take mine! Danger! Is their not cowardice as well? Come, answer me, what should it profit me To cease my mourning? Or else hear me speak; Do I not live? Unprosperously I know, But well enough for me; to them, the while, I am a torment, and so render honour To him that's gone, if there be service there! You--madam hatress--you pretend to hate, But really take your father's murderers' side! For my part, I well never bend to them; Not though a man should come and offer me These gauds of yours, in which you glory now! Yours be the full-spread board, the cup o'erflowing; For me--be it my only sustenance Not to offend my conscience. Thus, I do not ask to share your dignities, And were you well-advised, no more would you! But now, though it be in your power to be called Your father's child--the foremost of mankind, Be called--your mother's! So you shall appear In most men's eyes unmeritoriously, False to your friends, and to your father's shade. |
