Power of Belief-Katie Byars
Belief can be used to justify many things. In Electra and Orestes case they believed in their
father's greatness. They were angry at the way Clytemnestra had treated them and so they
turned to the missing parental figure and lifted him up. They used the belief of Agamemnon`s
unjustly demise and the belief of the time that revenge was justified to unleash their anger on
Clytemnestra and Aegisthus and killed them, and everyone around them celebrated the deaths.
However when Clytemnestra used belief that she was justified for killing Agamemnon because
he killed her daughter no one believed her. What ever the true reason behind the act and the
disbelief it is shown belief doesn't always transfer to other people how we think it would.
Sometimes it catches on and everyone agrees and sometimes it doesn't.
father's greatness. They were angry at the way Clytemnestra had treated them and so they
turned to the missing parental figure and lifted him up. They used the belief of Agamemnon`s
unjustly demise and the belief of the time that revenge was justified to unleash their anger on
Clytemnestra and Aegisthus and killed them, and everyone around them celebrated the deaths.
However when Clytemnestra used belief that she was justified for killing Agamemnon because
he killed her daughter no one believed her. What ever the true reason behind the act and the
disbelief it is shown belief doesn't always transfer to other people how we think it would.
Sometimes it catches on and everyone agrees and sometimes it doesn't.
Belief can be misused as well as used to accomplish great things.
Belief in God will allow you to go far in the path he has set for you. But belief is scary in the
wrong person`s hands. Belief can also be strengthened by other people. Having other people to
help you as you struggle is a good thing. Orestes and Electra to help strengthen his resolve
when he came face to face to his mother about to kill her.
Belief in God will allow you to go far in the path he has set for you. But belief is scary in the
wrong person`s hands. Belief can also be strengthened by other people. Having other people to
help you as you struggle is a good thing. Orestes and Electra to help strengthen his resolve
when he came face to face to his mother about to kill her.
I posted on Moriah`s and Michael`s post.
The paradigms we hold greatly shape our actions and worldview. It is not uncommon to hold a deceased loved one in higher honor than they may deserve, so it is understandable why Electra and Orestes felt this way about their father. Likewise, emotions, such as grief, cloud our outlook and I'm sure this plays a factor into the cycle of revenge in which this culture was trapped.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion it's also harder to hold a grudge against a dead person especially if they were your father. Orestes being the heir would have been completely biased towards Agamemnon and justifying what he did whereas he is quick to want to take revenge on his mother for killing his father. It also shows the double standard of the time period where you can justify anything a man does but if a woman commits a crime anywhere near it it's horrible in their eyes.
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