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Greek Myth

• In Greek mythology, as told by many great Greek playwrights, Electra is a princess of Argos.

• Clytemnestra has taken his cousin Aegisthus as her lover.

• Clytemnestra has killed Agamemnon.

• Electra Killed both the mother and lover with the help of brother Orests

Greek Myth

• Video

• According to Sigmund Freud it is the extreme expression of Electra & Oedipus complex.

• In the childhood it develops in the child’s mind.

Character comparison

• Orests• Agamemnon

• Clytemnestra• Electra

Levinia Christine

OrineEzra

Comparison

• Captain Peter Niles – Pylades

• Captain Adam Brant – Aegisthus

• American War –Trojan War

Electra complex in Morning becomes Electra

• Writer’s own cultivation of the storyline.

• Levinia loves her mother’s lover.

• Christine is more venomous.

• “ I can’t Marry you Peter! Father will need me.”

• Peruse Orine to avenge.

• Indirect murderer of the family.

• The motto of Captain Brant is successful at the end.

Electra complex in Morning becomes Electra

• The Electra complex proved disastrous for family.

• A suppressed and suffocative feeling for Leviniaherself throughout the play.

• Freud puts stress on the nurture of the child.

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• Green eyed monster in mother’s eye continues to be in their life as Electra complex in daughter’s mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti5VkAzcXvc

Prepared by: Lajja Bhatt

Sem III

Roll No: 16

Enrolment No: PG13101003

Email:laaju2u@gmail.comPaper: 10

Maharaja Krishnakumar sinhji BahvnagarUniversity,

Bhavnagar