Hello,
There's one thing that has always bothered me as we read the Aeschylus. What's the purpose of the Chorus? I get that they move the story along, but...Why? Ugh, what meant is this. They spend the entire story persuading and urging the other characters on, and they seem to just come out of nowhere. More importantly, why DO these characters listen to a bunch of random singers that come right out of nowhere...? If I was Clytemnestra and a group of random singers came to me, telling me what to do, I wouldn't go, "Hey! That's a great idea!" I'd go, "Who are you? And why are you in my palace...?"
----I commented WillJustice's Gr33d post.
hahahaha! Well if I’m not mistaken to understand the origin of the chorus you would have to know how Greek drama first started. The first Greek plays only had one actor who played all the roles and the chorus where the people who helped the story go along by continuing the plot along while the actor was... changing masks or something. It wasn't until later that more than one actor was introduced... as time goes by you see more and more actors added and the chorus playing a smaller and smaller role. They also served as a comic relief. Having a group of people follow you around commenting about everything one does may seem weird, but it's just how they did things...
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