The cost of vengeance. Sophocles focuses less on the bloodbath and more on the emotional toll that "waiting for justice" takes on the human heart. Electra is a woman consumed by a single, righteous, but devastating purpose. Why Sophocles Matters Today
Electra lives in mourning and squalor, waiting years for her brother Orestes to return and avenge their father, Agamemnon, who was murdered by their mother, Clytemnestra. Sophocles : four tragedies
An old, blinded, and exiled Oedipus arrives at a sacred grove in Colonus seeking a final resting place. He is no longer a monster, but a figure of strange, holy power. The cost of vengeance