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This page is just unreal Electra 520-540

"CHRYSOTHEMIS. But to give up the life you lead with us!
ELECTRA. A-marvellous existencet One to envy!CHRYSOTHEMIS. It could be, if you would behave with sense.
ELECTRA. You'll not teach me to abandon those love."

"Time has power to heal all wounds."

'Electra, my unhappy sister!'

Great definition.

"For why should I have sight. When sight of nothing could give me pleasure?"

"You heap the blame on me; but what is yours You do not know--therefore I am the villain!"

"If only we could find one ray of light."

"We saw her hanging, dead; strips from her dress Had served her for a rope. Haemon we saw Embracing her dead body and lamenting His loss, his father's deed, and her destruction."

"No man alive is free
From error, but the wise and prudent man
When he has fallen into evil courses
Does not persist. but tries to find amendment.
It is the stubborn man who is the fool."

"O brother,* through an evil marriage you were slain; and I
Live- but your dead hand destroys me."

"CREON. Am I to rule for them, not for myself?
HAEMON. That is not government, but tyranny.
CrEON. The king is lord and master of his city.
HAEMON. Then you had better rule a desert island!
CREON. This man, it seems, is the ally of the woman.
HAEMON. If you're the woman, yes! I fight for you."
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"CREON. Scoundrel, so to surrender to a woman!
HAEMON. But not to anything that brings me shame"

"HAEMON. Father, I am your son; may your wisc judgement Rule me, and may I always follow it. E No marriage shall be thought a greater prize For me to win than your good government."

"Was I to stand before the gods' tribunal
For disobeying them. because I feared
A man?"

"CREON. No more of this! You are a babbling fool"

Agreed

trust me electra you are better off without agamemnon (team clytemnestra on this one)

I thought this was the entire oedipus trilogy when I found it at value village. how silly I was to think that