Retribution in The Oresteia by Aeschylus

Aeschylus The Oresteia is a affecting representation of how the human intellect handles in referee. As children, humans are taught to treat others in the aforementioned(prenominal) way they would wish to be treated, but history has sh knowledge that almost people no long live by this favorable rule . In fact, if the maxim an eye for an eye, makes the whole domain blind  were less metaphoric and more literal, the world immediately would be completely dark. cosmos are ingrained with a sense of respectableice and allow for seek to attain rightness by any government agency necessary. No matter the obstinance one may have, on that point is a threshold at which control is relinquished and avenging is sought. Throughout the trilogy, Aeschylus paints a jut out of this cycle that starts with a murder, creating a vendetta. The vendetta leads to revenge and upon succeed payment is attained. However, as avenging is attained, a vendetta is innate(p) again and the cycle beg ins anew. Aeschylus exemplifies this alternate(prenominal) theme in severally book, but also uses it as a tie betwixt each of the three books and executes this beautifully and articulately. \nThe first book, Agamemnon, is not the author of the cycle of revenge, but acts as an entry point for the subscriber. The reader is given the story of the Atreus family and how Agamemnon is just one victim of umteen that has become the history of the model family of human nature. Agamemnon ignorantly puts himself into a position to breed rancor in opposition to himself. go about with the question as to whether or not to go to war off the beaten track(predicate)e and bring Helen back to Argos, Agamemnon mustiness choose between filicide or risk losing the alliances formed by dint of Helen and Menelaus marriage. Agamemnon knows rage craves rage  and so he must play the fire to achieve the retribution he seeks (Meineck and Foley 11). He is far too advantageous for his own good and neg lects to see that the justice he seeks is ironically created by his own injustice. Aeschylus brilliantly exacerbates the c...