Name : Rasila JambuchaRoll no: 22Paper: The American literature

Topic: Myth of Agamemnon in Morning Becomes Electra Submitted to: Smt.s.b.Gardi Department of English M.K.Bhavnagar University

The descendants of Atreus

Atreus -Aerope

Electra Iphigenia Orestes

Agamemnon-Ezra Mannon

Menelaus-Helen

Myth of Agamemnon

king of Mycenae Atreus murdered Thyestes (Aegisthus father)

because he has relation with Aerope that’s why Aegisthus wants to take revenge from

Agamemnon Helen abducted by Paris of Troy Agamemnon commanded the united Greek

armed force in the ensuing Trojan war

after the Trojan war he return with Cassandra (princess of Trojan – as prize)

Agamemnon sacrifice Iphigenia, to the goddess Artemin in return for safe passage to the city of Troy

when he returns home, he was murdered by his wife or Aegisthus or by both together

Electra and Orestes plotted revenge against their mother and Aegisthus (for the murder of their father)

then Electra married Orestes friend Pylades

work Myth

play Ezra Mannon Christine Lavinia Orin Captain Adam Brant Captain Peter Niles American civil war

myth Agamemnon Clytemnestra Electra Orestes Aegisthus Pylades Trojan war

In the work

Ezra Mannon - general in the civil war and judge Christine waited ten years for husband Brant- man from the Navy = son of Lavinia's grand

uncle Christine and Brant have affairs but in Lavinia in love with (Brant) mothers paramour Christine and Brant planning the murder of Ezra(giving

poison) Orin returns – Lavinia and he planning to kill Brant

Orin shoots Brant

Ezra and Brant – are murdered = one poisoned and other shot dead

Orin and Christine = commit suicide

Lavinia opts for slow suicide by entombing herself within the mansion

Three part

Homecoming

The hunted

The haunted

Oedipus complex

Ezra Mannon Marie Brantome christine

Lavinia Orin

Adam Brant

Ezra married – Christine because she resemble his first love Marie Brantome

- he also love his daughter because she resemble Marie and Christine Brant loves Christine and Lavinia because she resemble

his mother Marie BrantomeLavinia love her father, when peter asks indirectly her

for marriage she says, “ I can’t marry anyone, peter…. Father needs me” - she also love brother because he resemble her father - she also love Brant because he resemble her father

Christine falls in love with Brant because he resemble her son Orin

“I never would have fallen in love with Adam, if I have Orin with me ….when he had gone there was nothing left a longing for love.” Orin loves his mother, that's why he kills Brant and also

he resemble his father when he kills Brant, “By god, he dose look like father . I have killed him before (in my dream) – over and over.” - he also loves Lavinia because she resembles his mother i.e. in the last part she almost look like Clytemnestra

coclusion

• we can compare with hamlet 1 poisoned 2 murdered 3 revenge