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Electra Study Guide & Notes

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Electra Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:

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Electra Plot Summary

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The play opens at dawn in Mycenae, where Paidagogos and Orestes stand before the palace of the slain Agamemnon, discussing how best to revenge the murdered king. The god Apollo instructed Orestes to seek revenge, not by "shield nor army" but "secretly" and with his own hand. Orestes plans to have Paidagogos enter the palace carrying an funeral urn full of ashes and announce that Orestes has been killed in a chariot race.

Electra enters alone, mourning the fate of her murdered father, Agamemnon, and hoping for the arrival of her brother, Orestes, so together they can seek revenge. A Chorus of Myceneaen women enters, singing a "kommos," or song of lament. The Chorus suggests that Electra accept her fate, reminding her that the weak cannot destroy the strong and offering stoic advice to accept life's troubles—after all, everyone dies. Above all, they urge her to be reasonable, advising...
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