Ηλεχτρα
This is the story of Electra, who is one of the daughters of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnstra. She also had a sister and a brother named Orestes. King Agamemnon had to leave to defend is country and lead his troops to fight in the Trojan War. While he was gone, Clytemnestra took a lover, Aegisthus, and when King Agamemnon returned from the war Clytemnestra killed her husband. Electra was left at home with her adultress and murdering mother and her lover while her brother was sent away. Some believe that in order to protect the throne he now had, Aegisthus wanted to kill Orestes but Electra saved him. All these years she has been waiting for his return and that is where we begin the story.
Electra at the tomb of Agamemnon by Sir William Blake Richmond (1842-1921)
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Dear brother, where are you?
Have you not yet grown
To be the man to help me
Obtain our father's throne?
I saved you as a baby
So that you would not be slain.
Please don't let me find out
My efforts were in vain.
I have waited for so long,
With hatred boiling inside
To avenge our father's murder
And to my promise I will abide.
I have lived all these years
Being tortured from within.
Our wretched mother must not be allowed
To get away with such a sin.
Dear brother, I am in need
Of your return. Come back to me!
This we must bring to an end,
And then the king you will be.
You belong on the throne
Our father ruled so long ago,
Not this thing of a man
Who killed our father so.
I weep each day for you,
And our father we have lost.
I wait each day for you
To help make our mother pay the cost.
I have cursed our evil mother,
And her lover I've cursed as well.
I've called upon those of the Underworld
To help bring vengeance against them from hell.
Dear brother, come and rescue me,
For I have found comfort in my pain,
And vengeance is the only way to end this,
For with vengeance, happiness I will gain.
I will eagerly await your return.
For then, my brother, dear,
Our vengeance we will have
And the sound of death I'll love to hear.
Here I only told the story of Electra and her pain. I wanted to convey the way that she felt in order to set the mood and the scene for the final story. There really was not much detail about how she felt so I had to elaborate on the little information provided for me but overall I think that I was able to portray her feelings based on the stories I read.
Title: Electra (Author: Carlos Parada 1997)
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Στορψβοοκ Χοϖερπαγε
(Storybook Coverpage)
Οιδιπους
(Oedipus)
Τηε Σφιγξ
(The Sphinx)
Ηλεχτρα ανδ Ορεστης
(Electra and Orestes)
