The classics we illustrate, explain, help us to think. And we can always find a compromise between their lines.
Classics has always fascinated me the story of Electra, portrayed by Euripides and Sophocles (repeated by many others, sometimes with great fortune), daughter of King Agamemnon of Mycenae and Clytemnestra. During the time that Agamemnon was fighting in the Trojan War, Clytemnestra Aegisthus began a relationship with that, the return of the king, was resolved with his assassination at the hands of his wife.
Chrysothemis is a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, Electra's sister thus. Both sisters know that their mother who has killed his father, both expect, but with a different degree of momentum, Orestes, the brother who must avenge his father, but the attitude of the two is completely different. Exemplify, to a certain extent, the two different attitudes we can take against injustice. Electra symbolizes anger, excessive anger, the struggle to change things:
"What well-born woman could bear the father's misfortune, shameless endure growing, day after day without seeing an end? (...) Every day in my house I pass by the two murderers ungodly my dear father was killed. "
Chrysothemis, however, confronts his sister for her attitude that she identifies with a fit of madness.
"What are you saying, sister around? Are you still with your fantasies about resgreso of our brother?" Have not you learned yet, so many years, to resign? "
resignation is certainly the word that best defines Chrysothemis. Faced with the bravado of Electra, the trial and the patience of her sister
"I prefer, when the winds are against me, sailing with the sails furled, without vain boasting of threats can not be fulfilled. I know that your behavior is correct and that is more just do what you do but if you want to live in freedom, should obey the powers that be "
A Everybody knows that these words define the actions of many, very many, and would ethical thinking even with the shades you want to respond to a sensible attitude at a time when you can not do otherwise. Listen to what she complains to her sister Electra:
"No Speak for yourself, Chrysothemis, in your mouth is talking about your mother. "
There is no greater contempt by the mouth of the measured talk tyrants. And still Electra:
" You have to choose, sister can not be wise and just at a time. If you just you have to suffer, if you choose to be prudent betray the memory of your blood. What I earn I can leave my sorrows? Do I treat you better? I'm not interested. My tears are bothering them. (...) You, however, do not fool yourself, like you give to those who murdered your father "
After a dialogue full of threats Chrysothemis asks his sister:
" You do not mind losing what you have? " Let
be partial and leave it there. The work continues and should be a joy to see represented. But not reading it recognize (we recognize) Electras or Chrysothemis, one or the other, sometimes alternately one or the other.
confess something: Electra, always the same, just getting a little heavy, as surely we all feel ourselves sometimes so much to defend an idea. But my admiration is for her, for the heavy, because it is not sold.
Texts belonging to the cited Electra of Sophocles, translated by Pedro Almeida Saenz.
Author: EastRiver
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