Essay Archive - Progression Towards Light
Progression Towards Light
Aeschylus' use of darkness and light as a consistent image in the
Oresteia depicts a progression from evil to goodness, disorder to order. In the
Oresteia, there exists a situation among mortals which has gotten out of
control; a cycle of death has arisen in the house of Atreus. There also exists
a divine disorder within the story which, as the situation of the mortals, must
be brought to resolution: the Furies, an older generation of gods, are in
conflict with the younger Olympian gods because they have been refused their....
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