Surname 1 Student Professor Course Date Oresteia Trilogy Expository Essay Aeschylus, the ancient Greek dramatist, wrote the dramaOresteia Trilogy,first performed in 458 BC (Britannica.com, Para. 1).Oresteia Trilogy’s greatness features the fact that it cuts across the shortcomings of drama validations on a never achieved scale since. The related themes of justice and revenge are because fate provides a hard time to judge. Free will is not only limited by gods, as indicated by Libation Bearers. However, in Oresteia, there is a more exalted divine concept of fate, meaning the word fate in a more non-literary sense. Again, they do not mean in the impacted, heavenly sense of whether the universe determines everything in advance when they mention limitations. Therefore, as stated by Libation Bearers, free will is not only limited by gods. Thus, characters in the dramaOresteia Trilogyhave a destiny and free will related closely to underlying themes of justice and revenge in a universe ruled by gods with conflicting interests. Agamemnon is driven by fate to kill her daughter Iphigenia freely. For instance, as indicated by Libation Bearers, when enslaved one group of individuals by another, like the rulers of Argos, it can also be limited by individual means. “And for myself – because the gods thought, my city its fate by siege and from my father’s house led me into the lot of a slave – right or wrong, it is proper I accept a rule over my life in violence to my heart, and conquer my bitter
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