Category: Tragedy

In most Greek tragedies, the writer uses the chorus as a tool to comment on action in the play. The chorus does not play an active role in the story, such that if they were removed from the work, the plot would not be affected. However, in Oresteia, Aeschylus does not keep to this traditional…

The nature of mankind makes us struggle to choose between right and wrong. From time to time, there is a struggle between personal desires and moral decisions. In the play Macbeth, William Shakespeare illustrates humanity as murky and corrupt. He demonstrates the unsavory side of human nature through three of the main characters. Not only…