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A 12 page paper which examines the themes of vengeance and injustice in Euripides’ “Electra” and Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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12 pages (~225 words per page)
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While they are generally considered to be stories from different genres, with Shakespeares being a comedy and Euripides being a drama or tragedy, they both address the pursuit of vengeance
because of an injustice done. In these stories the reader is presented with characters who plot and plan vengeance on a wrong
done to them. They are stories wherein the characters feel outraged, betrayed, humiliated and wronged and they feel it is their responsibility to set things right. However, in the end
they are all in positions where they perhaps realize that injustice, or their own unjust acts, will not, can not, or did not set things right. In the end, the
moral of the stories seems to be that vengeance is, in all honestly, not truly sweet and it is not something that is a necessary evil. The following paper examines
each story separately, discussing the themes of injustice and vengeance, and then compares and contrast the two. Electra Euripides "Electra" is the
story of Electra the daughter of Clytemnestra. It is important to understand that the story of Electra begins before Euripides story as it involves Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. In the classic
story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that he and his men can be
safe and arrive home. In this story we also have Agamemnon taking a mistress back home with him, back home to the place where his wife Clytemnestra resides with her
new lover. Clytemnestra and her love have conspired to kill Agamemnon for killing the daughter. "It is many years since Agamemnon was murdered by his wife Clytaimestra and her
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