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A 7 page essay that examines the stagecraft employed in these two works. While the art of playwriting has evolved and changed over the course of Western civilization, playwrights whether ancient or modern had to accomplish similar tasks in the storytelling and dramatization. The audience, in both cases, has to be informed about the background to the story, that is, the context in which the play takes place. The audience should also understand the nuances of characterization and the motivation that propels the characters to specific actions. Looking at the stagecraft of the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, in his trilogy Oresteia, and the modern adaptation of this myth in Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies, it can be seen how each author uses different theatrical devices to accomplish their storytelling goals. No additional sources cited.
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in the storytelling and dramatization. The audience, in both cases, has to be informed about the background to the story, that is, the context in which the play takes place.
The audience should also understand the nuances of characterization and the motivation that propels the characters to specific actions. Looking at the stagecraft of the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, in
his trilogy Oresteia, and the modern adaptation of this myth in Jean-Paul Sartres The Flies, it can be seen how each author uses different theatrical devices to accomplish their storytelling
goals. Aeschylus Oresteia Aeschylus Oresteia is actually composed of three separate plays--Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and Eumenides. Collectively, these plays tell the story of the house of Atreus. Basically,
to give a "thumbnail" sketch of the plot to the three plays, the story begins at the start of the Trojan War. In order to obtain favorable winds from the
gods in order to sail to Troy, Agamemnon is forced by divine edict to sacrifice his daughter to the gods, which enrages his wife Clytemnestra who betrays him with her
lover Aesgisthus. When Agamemnon returns, Clytemnestra and her lover murder the king and his concubine Cassandra. Together the murderer rule the city. Orestes, Agamemnons son lives on in exile and
Electra, another daughter, lives on with her mother, but despises her for her awful deed. Orestes returns and is goaded by Electra to murder Clytemnestra. He eventually does, but for
his own reasons, not for revenge, but out of a sense of civic duty. However, for his sin, matricide, he is hounded by Furies who punish him. However, in the
third and final play, Orestes stands trial with a jury of Athenians assembled by the goddess Athena. Orestes is acquitted and Athena persuade the Furies to protect the family that
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