HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Clytemnestra, Omen, Zero-Sum Game
8 May 2019
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Trope - figures of speech used to present themselves as noble, and their enemy as not noble. Tropes + omens (sign, superstition, even nature can be perceived as signs from gods) = they were used together, omens were one of the tropes. Example: the furies, are the goddesses of revenge, they represent the payback that"s coming to someone who did something wrong, they champion someone who wants revenge. Clytemnestra side from the third play, however, it was also furies that drove orestes to revenge for his father. Injustice - claiming honor that you did not deserve, taking more than you deserve. So many conflicts that mix up with each other. Fate - everyone is locked in blind destiny of reversal (they go up, and then they are thrown down, then they go up, they are thrown down, etc. ) Everyone is a subject of the fate, which is a necessity of the reversal (human beings must suffer).
