Congratulations. You just fought this horrific war, almost lost but then we won. And you come home and I’ve decided to kill you...
Poor Agamemnon.
He’s kind of like the dad whos been working all day and he comes home and just barely sits down on his lazy boy recliner when his wife screams get up come do this for me...He seems like a genuinely hard working guy fighting for his country and all that jazz, but his wife is just so embittered she just has to kill him. Is that right? Does she have the right to be angry at him? Would Sarah have the right to be angry at Abraham if he had killed Isaac. It’s been 10 years shouldn’t she have gotten over this? hmmm....This seems to present quite a large moral dilemma that “The Eumenides” only elaborates on. Is it okay to kill someone if they killed someone else? It seems to be similar to the issue of the death penalty. (I don’t know how it is here, but in Texas you don’t find many people who are against the death penalty.) While the people in this play do not have as organized of a system to determine this it is similar. Someone is a killer and so Clytaemnestra kills the killer. Further beyond that from the perspective that she is revenging her daughter. This play kind of reminds me of a lifetime movie...
Oppressive male kills the daughter, mom finds revenge killing him and his lover...
Awesome...empower women....kind of...
I posted on Lucy Beth
ReplyDeletePersonally, I'm for the death penalty, but that's for another time and place.
ReplyDeleteI believe that it's alright to kill a murderer, as black and white as that might sound (or cruel). But, I'm an arm for an arm type guy who heavily believes in karma as well. Take my eye, I take yours. Take the life of my friend or family, your life is mine.
An interesting question arises from this post... what about grace? IS it ok to murder a murderer? Is it justice at that point or is it simply more murder? I deserve to die for the sins I have committed, but I have been covered by the grace of Almighty God. How does HIS love and grace fit in this situation? This is something I continue to wrestle with...
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