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represent moral teachings by exploring concepts of revenge and justice as individuals can learn lessons from each. Both tales involve protagonists that have been exiled from their entitled position
in society, and as a result wish to regain their rightful places by any means possible. It could be said that in their respective works, Euripides and Shakespeare were
questioning the moral validity of the assumption that when a person has been wronged, the end always justifies the means. Interestingly, both Electra and The Tempest, the actual injustice suffered
by the protagonists are not shown in the action; they are merely referred to. This forces the audiences/readers to decide for themselves whether or not the story is true
and if the revenge is justified in each instance. For example, in Electra, a farmer remarks how King Agamemnon, husband of Clytemnestra and father of daughter Electra and son
Orestes, "In his own house / he was killed by Clytemnestras treachery / and the hand of... Aigisthos" (lines 8-10). Clytemnestra quickly married her lover Aigisthos, and Electra and
Orestes were essentially banished and cheated out of their birthright. After years of estrangement the siblings came together, and Orestes remarks, "Id plan and work revenge with her" (line
102). With the gods approval, Electra and Orestes set out to avenge their fathers murder, which involves murdering both Aigisthos and their mother. The infidelities and treachery King
Agamemnon committed are never mentioned in Electra (which included the sacrifice of daughter Iphigeneia), almost as if they were irrelevant. Perhaps this is because revenge is a single-minded obsession
that does not pause to consider pro and con arguments. In The Tempest, the magician Prospero and his daughter Miranda suffered
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