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Progression Towards Light
Beginning of Paper
Aeschylus' use of darkness and light as a consistent image in the
Oresteia depicts a progression from evil to goodness, disorder to order. In the
Oresteia, there exists a situation among mortals which has gotten out of
control; a cycle of death has arisen in the house of Atreus. T .... Middle of Paper .... death which began with the murder and
consumption of Thyestes' children continues with Clytaemestra's murder of
Agamemnon and Cassandra. The darkness which is present in the beginning of the
story is further magnified by the death of Agamemnon. This is illustrated when
Clytaemestra says, “Thus he [Agamemnon] went down, and the life struggled out
of him; and as he died he spattered me with the dark red and violent driven
rain of bitter savored blood” (lines 1388-1390). Clytaemestra has evilly and
maliciously murdered her own husband; ....
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