And So Those Who Consume will Themselves Later be Consumed
In my personal opinion, Orestes is the character with the closest tie to real Justice, though his actions and thoughts are still flawed.
Orestes sees his father more right, as from what it seems, Clytaemnestra doesn't even care about her sacrificed daughter (not given as a reason for her actions), and it seemed she cared more about being pleasured by a man during her everyday life than having a husband who provided for her and brought honor to the family by doing what was expected of him and fight in military excursions.
Because Agamemnon did what he thought was best for his whole family, in the context of obligation to the nation, Orestes sees Clytemnestra's reason for killing him as an excuse to be rid of him, which it actually seems to be. So, his mother and stepfather were co-conspirators in the death of his father, and they were a murderer and an adulterer, relatively.
In his eyes, which are not completely wrong, the murder of his father was not justified, so his father's murderer should be brought to justice, his mother; it was already a practice to execute adulterers, so there was another reason for the death of Aegisthus. In many legal terms, he was justified in his actions, unlike his mother.
However, what seals him as the person who cares the most about Justice, is that he expressed doubt whether what he was doing was right, a few times. And at the very end, although he was justified in what he did, he very deeply regretted the death of his mother, especially by his own hands, contrasted to Clytaemnestra, who felt no regret at all, and only cared when she was under the impression that her life or peace was threatened. She was selfish, plain and simple.
-- Isaac Wilson
Postscript: I commented on the posts of Brenna and Spencer
Orestes sees his father more right, as from what it seems, Clytaemnestra doesn't even care about her sacrificed daughter (not given as a reason for her actions), and it seemed she cared more about being pleasured by a man during her everyday life than having a husband who provided for her and brought honor to the family by doing what was expected of him and fight in military excursions.
Because Agamemnon did what he thought was best for his whole family, in the context of obligation to the nation, Orestes sees Clytemnestra's reason for killing him as an excuse to be rid of him, which it actually seems to be. So, his mother and stepfather were co-conspirators in the death of his father, and they were a murderer and an adulterer, relatively.
In his eyes, which are not completely wrong, the murder of his father was not justified, so his father's murderer should be brought to justice, his mother; it was already a practice to execute adulterers, so there was another reason for the death of Aegisthus. In many legal terms, he was justified in his actions, unlike his mother.
However, what seals him as the person who cares the most about Justice, is that he expressed doubt whether what he was doing was right, a few times. And at the very end, although he was justified in what he did, he very deeply regretted the death of his mother, especially by his own hands, contrasted to Clytaemnestra, who felt no regret at all, and only cared when she was under the impression that her life or peace was threatened. She was selfish, plain and simple.
-- Isaac Wilson
Postscript: I commented on the posts of Brenna and Spencer
For someone who is justified he sure did sneak around to kill his mother. He acted much like her in the way he murdered her. I can see Orestes being the closest to justice based on that societies standards, but to me I don't think any of the murders so far have been completely justified. While I can see why each person would commit such a crime I can't say that anyone is justified in killing one another here.
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