Then the court is thrown into a panic: two strangers have arrived and ask to be seen.
Elektra goes on to describe with frenzied elation how her mother will succumb under Orest's blows. But when the queen, full of hope, asks who needs to be killed, Elektra replies that it is Klytämnestra herself who has to die. The mother asks her daughter what remedy could restore her sleep, and Elektra reveals that a sacrifice may indeed free her from her nightmares. She wants to talk to Elektra, and when her daughter's words are more amenable than usual, she sends off her followers to stay with her. She has been preparing sacrifices hoping to pacify the gods as she suffers from nightmares. Chrysothemis asks her sister to renounce vengeance and let life take over again. The latter grew up far away from the palace and Elektra is keenly waiting for him day after day.Ĭhrysothemis interrupts Elektra, who is caught up in her thoughts, and warns her that Klytämnestra and Aegisth have decided to lock her up in a tower. Devastated with grief, Elektra is obsessed with the revenge she intends to take together with her sister, Chrysothemis, and her brother, Orest. The servants all criticize and mock her, except for one, who takes her defense.īy herself, Elektra remembers how Agamemnon was assassinated upon his return from Troy, slain with an axe by Klytämnestra and her lover, Aegisth. Daughter of King Agamemnon and Klytämnestra, Elektra appears and locks herself up in her solitude straight away. In the courtyard of the Palace of Mycenae, the servants are wondering whether Elektra will be grieving over her father, as is her daily ritual.
0 kommentar(er)
