“ORESTES: Just to see the outline of your suffering ELECTRA: Yet this is only a fraction of it you see.” SufferingElectraSophoclesOrestes Book:Electra Source: Electra
“ELECTRA: Oh but my love—now that you have travelled back down all those years to meet my heart, over all this grief of mine, do not oh love— ORESTES: What are you asking? ELECTRA: Do not turn your face from me. Don't take yourself away.” LoveHeartGriefStay With MeReunitedElectraSophoclesBeseechingDon T Leave MeOrestes Book:Electra Source: Electra
“Because she—you hear her—she's calling, and is always going to call, and it's better both of us die by the dagger without anyone seeing us, Orestes, and die a fit death.” PoetrySuicideGuiltHauntedGreek TragedyElectraMadwomenGabriela MistralClytemnestraOrestes Book:Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral Source: Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“ORESTES: Never shall I see you again. ELECTRA: Nor I see myself in your eyes. ORESTES: This, the last time I'll talk with you ever. ELECTRA: O my homeland, goodbye. Goodbye to you, women of home. ORESTES: Most loyal of sisters, do you leave now? ELECTRA: I leave with tears blurring all that I see.” SadDialogueGoodbyeFarewellExilePartingGreek TragedyElectraEuripidesOrestes Book:Electra Source: Electra