CELIA MARIA ARNS.pdf - Universidade Federal do Paraná
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inextricable blood bond between himself and Orestes.. . 8<br />
Agamemnon:<br />
42<br />
My death, Orestes, will involve you. (...) It<br />
will settle quickly over your life. (...) You<br />
will no longer be the prince who laughs and<br />
stands aside, but the son who has not avenged<br />
his father's death... (P 80)<br />
It is based on this same mythological principle that<br />
Aegisthus announces to Clytemnestra: Death will be a<br />
bond between us... CP 90)<br />
Richardson's Orestes is also pursued by the<br />
Furies which symbolize the conscience of the individ-<br />
ual. In exile the hero goes from city to city, re-<br />
jected on all sides until finally in Athens he real-<br />
izes, when he is aban<strong>do</strong>ned by Pylades and Praxithia,<br />
that his actions are determined by historical and so-<br />
cial forces. Agamemnon's death creates an inextricable<br />
blood bond between father and son and forces the prince<br />
into revenge ...and although Orestes is unwilling to<br />
acknowledge his debt, his fate is sealed. 9<br />
Compare Orestes' situation as characterized by<br />
Jack Richardson with that described by Aeschylus:<br />
In The Prodigal:<br />
Orestes:<br />
...I kept hoping to find a town, a villageany<br />
place where I'm not known as Orestes of<br />
the Unavenged Father. CP 97)<br />
In Oresteia: