The trilogy is about language and the mysterious will of the gods, about tyranny, freedom and political change, and about a slow path to maturity for one young man (Orestes) and an entire culture. But each centres on female anger and female grief at violent loss of life and the willingness of family members to kill one another. Each of the three plays is radically different in style, mood and action. The child was killed by her father, the woman’s husband, in order to enable a vast war. A eschylus’ Oresteia begins with the story of a grieving, righteously angry woman seeking justice for her daughter.
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