Electra Symbolism, Imagery & Allegory

What was up with that whacky prophetic vision of the Queen's? Let's take a closer look:They say she saw our father beside her again,Restored to life. He then took hold of the staffHe used to carry...

The audience knows that Orestes is alive and that the slave is tricking the Queen and manipulating her into believing that Orestes is dead. So why, oh why, does Sophocles give him nearly 100 lines...

It's probably no coincidence that Electra spends all of her time standing in a doorway. Physically she's straddling the palace and the outdoors; morally she's in a real pickle. Though she is staunc...

It can be easy to miss if you're doing a quick read through, but Apollo's statue is always on stage. Apollo never makes an appearance himself, and the gods aren't directly involved in the play R...

One perspective of Electra is that the play is a moral one. Sophocles is interested in the different viewpoints of a morally sticky topic: vengeance. We can see each character as a different prism...